- Giorgio de Chirico (after), "La Grande Torre, 1913". Offset lithograph on heavyweight smooth satin paper (300gsm approx.). - Authorized edition 1986. - Plate signed. - Size: 60 x 90cm. - Condition: excellent. Never framed, never exposed. - Giorgio de Chirico is best known as a co-founder of the Scuola Metafisica art movement that blossomed in Italy at the start of the 20th century. With disquieting, dreamlike paintings of low-lit town squares populated with marble statues, trains, mannequins, and extended shadows, he illustrated the mysteries of the mind. The artist deliberately distorted perspectives and reduced shapes into flattened planes. De Chirico profoundly influenced the Surrealists. Today, de Chirico’s work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, among others. On the secondary market, his canvases frequently command seven-figure prices, one of his works fetched $15.9 million at a famous auction house. Artists of similar importance: Picasso, Hockney, Miro, Soulages, Lagasse, Lautrec, Klimt, Matisse, Chagall, Villemot, Magritte, Cappiello, Dalí, Gauguin, Monet, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Botero, among others.