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    Foto: Walter Klein, Düsseldorf

La grande tour, 1913

Giorgio de Chirico

On view at K20

Information

Artist

Giorgio de Chirico

1888
Volos, Thessalien, Griechenland

1978
Rom, Italien

Work data

Material/Technique

Oil on canvas

Signature

Bez. u.r.: "Giorgio de Chirico M.CM.XIII."

Accession Number

0207

Catalogue Raisonné

Baldacci 35

Acquisition year

1977

Provenance

Shortly after its creation in 1913, Giorgio de Chirico gave his painting “La grande tour” to the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, who owned several of the artist’s works. After Guillaume Apollinaire died in the 1918-1920 flu pandemic, the painting became the property of his wife Jacqueline and was sold by her to Apollinaire’s publisher, the art collector Bernard Poissonier by 1937 at the latest. The work remained in Poissonier’s collection until 1976 and was subsequently offered for sale by Galerie Petit. The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen purchased the painting “La grande tour” through Liberart Investment for its holdings in 1977.

Credit line

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

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
  • La Révolution surréaliste/Surrealismus 1919-1944. Dalí, Max Ernst, Magritte, Miró, Picasso ..., 19.7.-23.11.2002, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
  • La Révolution surréaliste/Surrealismus 1919-1944. Dalí, Max Ernst, Magritte, Miró, Picasso ..., 5.3.-23.6.2002, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
  • Giorgio de Chirico. La fabrique des rêves, 12.2.-23.5.2009, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
  • Silent Revolution - Eine neue Sammlungspräsentation, 26.2.-12.6.2010, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K21 Ständehaus, Düsseldorf
  • Dalí, Magritte, Miró. Surrealismus in Paris, 1.10.2011-28.1.2012, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel/Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brüssel, ab März 2012
  • Giorgio de Chirico. La peinture métaphysique / De Chirico. Magische Wirklichkeit, 13.9.2020-23.5.2021, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris/Hamburger Kunsthalle
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