chirico giorgio italian painter (3 résultats)

XXXIX (I) pages of text with 5 intercalated wholepage self-portraits on singleside printed plates; 1 sheet 'Planches', 30 singels. printed plates depicting the artist's works from 1925 to 1928, 1 per plate; text and plates printed on this paper resp. thing cardboard-sheets. - Slightly later 'jeans-like' blue cloth binding, both panels completely covered with the tipped-on green-titled front- and blank rear cover of the original creme-colour paper-bound original, the olive-grey endpapers decoratively marbled in green-red-black- and silver; 4to.(ca. 28 x 23 cm). *** [Letztmalig erweiterter SOMMER-SCHLUSS-VERKAUF (bis Donnerstag, den 18.09.2025) / Ultimately expanded SUMMER-END-SALE (until Thursday, September 18, 2025): um über 40% REDUZIERTER PREIS / PRICE-REDUCTION of over 40%; ursprünglicher Preis / originally EUR 615,-] --- FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST MONOGRAPH OF THE ARTIST, NO. 1 OF LARGE-PAPER 60 COPIES ON 'ARCHES'-PAPER; unfortunatley without the etching of the 'Édition de tête' (followed by 500 copies on 'Vélin'). - Last blank page with old namestamp 'BORYS GUREWICZ / CZESTOCHOWA / Aleja 27.' who may have been related to De Chirico's first wife, the russian dancer Raissa Gurievich with whom he went to Paris in 1925, or the polish born Editor of the book (W. George) as the first copy of a small numbered edition usually is reserved for someone close to the aothor/artist or the publisher if not for the artist himself. . . --- Spine minimally creased and slightly rubbed at both ends, the original - well preserved - covers slightly dusty and minimally spotty; a BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THE RARE BOOK.

8vo. 2 pp. on 2 single sheets. In Italian, to the Milanese gallery owner Vittorio Barbaroux, announcing that he will produce four new canvases ("quadri metafisici") inspired by the success of his metaphysical painting. De Chirico states that he has received all payments except one from Argentina, for which he asks his friend for help. In exchange, he offers him one of his works as a token of appreciation ("un mio ricordo in segno di riconoscenza"). He reassures him as to the quality and subject matter of the works with which he will soon entrust him for his Milan exhibition, giving their dimensions: "Ettore e Andromaca - mis. 100 x 70; Interno metafisico - 97 x 68; Trovatore - 63 x 50; Piazza d'Italia - 95 x 70", all of which are said to be very beautiful and which he is in no hurry to sell. He warns Barbaroux of the young painter Piero Zuffi, an adventurer who sent him the picture of a painting for authentication. He considers this "quadro metafisico con biscotti" a fake, and has given Zuffi a reply to this effect. Zuffi, having just returned penniless from a sojourn in France, would go on to enjoy a successful career as a theatre designer at Giorgio Strehler's Piccolo Teatro, then at La Scala in Milan. - Perforated. Small marginal tears.

8vo. 4 pp. on bifolium. To Marcello Anchorena about his struggle to obtain a declaration from the president of an artistic society of the official Paris salons, a document he needs to show his work at a salon and to prove that the works exhibited were requested from the artist by invitation and not without his knowledge or through assembling the works from collectors or dealers: "Il faudrait une déclaration du Président d'une, ou de deux des plus anciennes Société artistiques des Salons officiels de Paris, dans laquelle déclaration le dit Président cite aussi l'article du règlement (avec le numéro de l'article), pour que cela soit bien clair que d'après l'article numéro . du règlement de la Société Nationale des Artistes Français (c'est, je crois, la plus ancienne), les oeuvres exposés sont demandés aux artistes par invitation etc. [.] sûrement il y'a un ou quelques articles (ou paragraphes) d'après lesquels il resulte que le Salon ne peut pas exposer les oeuvres d'un artiste français vivant sans rien lui dire, à son insu, et en allant chercher les oeuvres chez des collectionneurs ou des marchands [.] C'est incroyable combien c'est difficile d'avoir ce que je demande. Il y a quelques années j'ai aussi essayé d'avoir ces documents pour moi tellement nécessaires; mais je n'ai eu que des choses à côté. Et pourtant cela paraît si simple [.] pourquoi est-ce tellement difficile d'avoir ce que je demande? [.]". - With a few small marginal flaws.