Giorgio De Chirico - Giorgio De Chirico - 1997

These are three important monographic volumes dedicated to Giorgio de Chirico's painterly work and theoretical universe. They form an excellent thematic lot and complementarity for those studying Surrealism and Metaphysics.

1. The volume on the left: de Chirico (Fabbri)
This large tome belongs to one of the most celebrated and widespread art series of the second half of the 20th century.
Title: de Chirico
Publisher: Fratelli Fabbri Editori, Milan
Features: Large-format hardcover with an illustrated dust jacket. It contains a richly lavish gallery of full-page color plates. The cover artwork: Reproduces the famous Self-Portrait with the Mother (1919), a crucial transitional painting in which the metaphysical style begins to dialogue with a return to classicism and to academic painting.

2. The volume in the center: De Chirico and the Myth
This is the official essay and catalog published on the occasion of a thematic exhibition focused on the deep link between the artist and classical mythology.
Title: De Chirico and the Myth
Publisher: Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori, Milan
Year of publication: 1997 (in conjunction with the Palazzo Reale exhibition in Milan)

3. The volume on the right: The Complete Works of De Chirico (Rizzoli)
This is a fundamental volume for collectors: part of the historic and prestigious series "Classici dell'Arte Rizzoli".
Title: The Complete Works of De Chirico 1908-1924
Curator: Critical and philological apparatus by Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco (the world's leading expert on de Chirico)
Publisher: Rizzoli, Milan
Year of publication: 1979

4. A famous period monographic folder dedicated to Giorgio de Chirico, the supreme exponent and founder of Metaphysical Painting. The work is part of the historic series "Pittori Italiani Contemporanei" published by the legendary Edizioni del Milione of Milan (linked to the famous Galleria del Milione of the Ghiringhelli brothers, a nerve center of the Italian artistic avant-garde).

Full title: 12 Works by Giorgio de Chirico
Author/Curator: Introduction and critical essay by Agnoldomenico Pica
Publisher: Edizioni del Milione (Milan)
Year of Publication: The work had several historical print runs in large folio format, starting from the first edition of 1944 (up to the subsequent editions of 1947 and 1952).
Language: Italian
Content and Pages: Contains an initial fascicle with about 18 pages of text numbered in Roman numerals, followed by 12 superb color plates printed out of text mounted by hand on the page (reproducing the masterpieces of the artist's metafysical period between 1913 and 1924).