Giorgio de Chirico Meeting in the Mysterious Baths mati...

Giorgio de Chirico Encounter in the Mysterious Baths Lithographic pencil on tracing paper 58.6 x 38.3 cm Executed in 1972 Work registered with Fondazione Giorgio and Isa de Chirico, Rome, under No. 073/03/23 OT, as authenticated on photograph. The work is a study for the lithograph of the same name made with Stamperia Caprini. Provenance: private collection, Rome Bibliography: G. C. Argan, G. Ungaretti, Voices of a New Artistic Vision, Rome 2023 Giorgio de Chirico (Volos, July 10, 1888 - Rome, November 20, 1978) "If de Chirico is a constructor of enigmas, and if in every work he hides in a maze of possibilities a secret road to be identified in order to discover his sublime message, the Mysterious Baths are the easiest and at the same time most playful enigma." These were the words written by Nikolaos Velissiotis, president of the Hellenic Cultural Center in Milan in his article entitled "Giorgio de Chirico and the Mysterious Baths Fountain in Milan's Sempione Park." It was on the occasion of the XV Milan Triennale in 1973 that twelve works were created for Sempione Park under the coveted project "Contatto Arte/Città," conceived and coordinated by Giulio Macchi with the aim of bringing art closer to the citizenry. Among the artists who participated we find Giorgio de Chirico with the project "Mysterious Baths. Pintosculptural composition" (Industrie dei Marmi Vicentini - Swimming Pool International). Dating from 1934 are the ten lithographs on the "Mysterious Baths" motif, created for Jean Cocteau's prose poem "Mythologie," which had Greek deities as its subject. In that work, the artist developed a world of undefined inventions, elegantly dressed men and bathers, colorful cabins on stilts, and pools with zigzagging watercraft. These lithographs would later become central to the project inducted by Giulio Macchi. Estimate € 35,000 - 45,000