Giorgio de Chirico
1912-1976
Catalogue of Works
Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico is pleased to announce the 1st volume of Giorgio de Chirico’s Catalogue of Works comprising of 450 artworks.
Maretti Editore - May 2014
Metaphysical Art
"Metaphysical Art” is a bilingual Italian-English periodical founded in 2001 that publishes recent studies and documents pertaining to Giorgio de Chirico's work and life.
The de Chirico Journals n. 11/13
The current issue n. 11/13 has been released in Italian.
The English edition will follow shortly.
Maretti Editore - May 2014
The Giorgio de Chirico House-museum
15° Anniversary: 20 November 1998 - 2013
"It is said that Rome is in the centre of the world and that Piazza di Spagna is in the centre of Rome. Therefore, my wife and I live in the centre of the centre of the world, which would be the utmost with regard to centrality and the utmost with regard to non-eccentricity." (1962)
Rai Educational - video presentation (Italian)
The Collection The corpus of works by Giorgio de Chirico conserved in the Foundation’s Collection comprises of paintings, sculptures, drawings, dating from the mid-1920s… Read more 
House-museum 31 Piazza di Spagna, Rome Open to the public from Tuesday to Saturday and the first Sunday of each month (10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.). Information Booking 
Il piccolo trattato di tecnica pittorica
Teoria e prassi del “ritorno al mestiere” Salvatore Vacanti Nardini editore Info Publication in Italian 
Dreamings
Aboriginal Australian art meets de Chirico Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome 4 July – 2 November 2014 Info 
Il Signor Dudron
Abscondita SE, 2014 New edition of Giorgio de Chirico’s novel, published for the first time in 1998 on the twentieth anniversary of the artist’s passing. Publication in Italian. Read more 
Authentic painting signaled as fake
Le Muse Inqietanti, late 1940s, by Giorgio de Chirico, has been signalled as a forgery by Peretti by the Archivio dell’Arte Metafisica. Read more 
Rapunzel & Co. Towers and Humans in Art
Arp Museum, Remagen 6 April - 31 August 2014 Info 
De la Metafisica à la Neometafisica
Iwate Museum of Art, Japan 21 June - 22 August 2014 Info
Essays
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Mister Dudron looked at his watch. It was five p.m. In an hour he thought, or little more, the gates of the Acropolis will close. I need to go now and, just before closing, try and hide myself behind a column or on the ground between the ruins and wait for the closing of the gates, in order to remain alone all night on that sacred hill under the infinite vault of stars…
Giorgio de Chirico, excerpt from Il Signor Dudron (a novel in preparation with the same title). |
Autobiographies
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I was born in Volo (Greece) in 1888 of Italian parents. During my childhood I dedicated myself to drawing and painting; I did not do regular studies of any kind or attend an academy, except for the academy of Munich, which I went to for a year when I was about 18. In Italy and France, I always worked alone. I worked in Paris from 1911 to 1915. During that time, I exhibited at the Salon d’Automne and at the “Indépendants”. I became friends with Guillaume Apollinaire. I returned to Italy in 1915…
Giorgio de Chirico, Autobiography c. 1926 |
Correspondence
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Dear Mr. Levy,
I have not had any news since my letter to you in which I spoke of the Surrealists’ persecution and put you on guard against their action towards me. I am told that Dalí has taken advantage of his stay in New York to speak badly of my painting to journalists. Is this true? To tell you the truth, it only affects me to a certain extent… Giorgio de Chirico |
Poetry
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Poème Non je ne suis pas le roi ô foule hurlante En jours très tristes d’été avancé Quand l’amour pleure la revolte est latente Et je pense ò Afrique à tes palmes balancées Je pense au choc des armes dans les salons deserts aux chasses à la baleine dans les mers boreale aux rugissements lointains la nuit dans le desert et à la luer des torches aux fêtes lupercales… Second half 1920s |
| The Complete Poems |
Drama
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The unpublished theatre piece Le Ballet – Commedie en quatres actes (dating to 1965 based on earlier version from mid-1940s) was published in the original French version in “Metaphysical Art” n. 3/4.
At left: Giorgio de Chirico, set design for Othello, Act III, pencil and watercolour tempera on cardboard, Teatro del’Opera, Rome 1964
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Fakes
The historical and ongoing situation regarding the falsification of Giorgio de Chirico’s artwork is a problem that the Foundation dedicates constant… read more