La statue silencieuse (Ariane) - Kunstsammlung NRW / Online-Sammlung

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Artist

Giorgio de Chirico

1888
Volos, Thessalien, Griechenland

1978
Rom, Italien

Work data

Material/Technique

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

Image: 99,8 × 125,5 × 2,6 cm
Frame: 122,0 × 147,7 × 7,3 cm

Signature

Bez. o.l.: "G. de Chirico"

Accession Number

1042

Catalogue Raisonné

Baldacci 34

Acquisition year

1967

Provenance

Giorgio de Chirico, who left Paris and went to Italy because of the First World War, gave his painting “La statue silencieuse (Ariane)” to the French writer Jean Paulhan for safekeeping shortly after its creation in 1913. Around 1921, Paulhan bought several works from the artist, including the painting of Ariane. The work remained in Paulhan’s collection until at least 1955, probably even 1966, the year in which it was presented by the newly founded Albert Loeb & Krugier Gallery. Through Loeb’s business partner, Jan Krugier, the work presumably ended up in the Krugier Gallery in Geneva, from which the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen purchased the painting “La statue silencieuse (Ariane)” for its holdings in 1967.

Credit line

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Erworben 1967 aus einer Spende des Westdeutschen Rundfunks

Exhibitions

Die andere Moderne - de Chirico/Savinio, 14.9.-1.12.2001, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Unser 20. Jahrhundert - Meisterwerke von Picasso bis Beuys, 14.7.-28.10.2000, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Die andere Moderne - de Chirico/Savinio, 19.12.2001-9.3.2002, Lenbachhaus, München
Giorgio de Chirico and the Myth of Ariadne, 2.11.2002-4.1.2003, Philadelphia Museum of Art/Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London
La Révolution surréaliste/Surrealismus 1919-1944. Dalí, Max Ernst, Magritte, Miró, Picasso ..., 19.7.-23.11.2002, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
The Savage Eye, 11.2.-7.5.2022, Munch Museet, Oslo