Giorgio de Chirico ( VOLOS  1888 - ROMA  1978 )

"Il giorno e la notte" November 1925 - January 1926 oil on canvas cm 41.5x27.5 Signed left towards the center Label on the reverse "Twentieth-Century Italian Art" The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1949   Provenance Alberto Della Ragione collection, Genoa Galleria d'Arte Cairola, Milan Riccardo and Magda Jucker collection, Milan Private collection   Literature E. Barbaroux, G. Giani, M. Bontempelli "Arte italiana contemporanea" Milan, Edizioni Grafica S.A., 1940, n. 44 ill. in colors (with wrong dimensions) J. T. Soby, A. H. Barr, Jr. "Twentieth-Century Italian Art" New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1949, p.129 M. Fagiolo dell'Arco, P. Baldacci "Giorgio de Chirico. Parigi 1924 - 1929 - dalla nascita del Surrealismo al crollo di Wall Street" Milan, ed. Philippe Daverio, 1982, p. 506 n. 96 (with wrong dimensions)   The painting will be published, with this cataloguing, in the Catalogue Raisonné of the work of Giorgio de Chirico, by Paolo Baldacci and Nicol Mocchi, Archivio dell'Arte Metafisica e Allemandi editore, Turin 2021, vol. III, Booklet 1 (Expected December 2023)

Estimate € 60,000 - 80,000

Sold € 280,000