Giorgio de Chirico (after) - La Grande Torre - Offset lithograph - 90x60 - Achenbach Licensed Print

Offset lithography after Giorgio de Chirico. Reproduction of the work “La Grande Torre” by De Chirico, 1913. Luxury edition on thick Fine Art Satin paper (250 g). Published by Achenbach Art Edition, Düsseldorf. Printed with authorized copyright and a legal serial number. Large format.

- Sheet dimensions: 60 x 90 cm
- Year: 1986
- Condition: Excellent (this piece has never been framed or displayed, always kept in a professional art folder, thus in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packaged in reinforced cardboard. Shipping will be tracked and certified.

The shipment will also include transport insurance for the final value of the work with full reimbursement in case of loss or damage, at no cost to the buyer.

(*) Sonia Delaunay was born on November 14, 1885 in Gradizhsk, Ukraine. Her birth name was Sarah Ilínichna Stern. She was born into a very modest family, which, unable to take care of her, sent her to live with her aunt and uncle Anna and Heinrich Terk in Saint Petersburg, who legally adopted her.
She traveled across Europe with her adoptive parents and learned several languages.
She studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, Germany.
In 1904, she moved to Paris, where her artistic talent was influenced by the Post-Impressionists and Fauves.
She married Wilhelm Uhde in 1909. A year later she divorced and married the painter Robert Delaunay. They had a son, Charles Delaunay.
From 1910, she drew inspiration from the forms of Cubism and the colors of Gauguin, Van Gogh, among others, developing a style based on the juxtaposition of pure colors broken into prisms.
With this technique she created paintings, fabrics, and designed costumes for the theater.
During 1911 she created her first "simultaneous dress", combining different very colorful fabrics. A few years later she applied this technique to upholstery as well, which was used by other designers in subsequent decades.
In 1917 and 1918 she collaborated in designing scenery and costumes for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes.
In the following years she dedicated herself mainly to clothing design and hand-printed fabrics with bright colors that revolutionized textile design.
In 1925 she participated in the Paris International Exhibition of Decorative Arts, where she presented her ‘simultaneous boutique’, which gained her great popularity.
From 1940 her painterly style became more delicate and simple, especially in gouaches, where her chromatic experiments reached new heights of refinement.
In 1964, the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris received a donation of 58 of her works, which were exhibited in the Louvre, making her the first woman to have her paintings exhibited in that museum during her lifetime.
The French state named her Officer of the Legion of Honor in 1975.
She published the book Nuevos Irons jusqu’au soleil (1978), reflections on her work and that of her husband.
Sonia Delaunay died on December 5, 1979, at the age of 94, in Paris, France.