(Volos, Greece 1888–1978 Rome)
Frutta con alberi, c. 1950, signed; signed and notary inscription dated 13 June 1962 on the reverse, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, framed

Provenance:
Zamberlan Collection (inscription on the reverse)
Galleria d’arte Ripetta, Rome (label on the reverse)
Galleria Gissi, Turin (stamps on the reverse)
Galleria La Bussola, Turin (label on the reverse)
Galleria Zanini Arte, Rome (stamp on the reverse)
Galleria Rotta, Genoa (stamp on the reverse)
Trucchi Collection, Genoa
Longaroni Collection
Christie’s, Milan, 21 November 1994, lot 219 (certificate available)
European Private Collection

Literature:
C. Bruni Sakraischik, Catalogo Generale. Giorgio De Chirico, opere dal 1931 al 1950, Vol VI, Electa Editrice, Milan 1974, p. 532 with ill.
AA. VV, Novecento: catalogo dell’arte italiana dal futurismo a Corrente, no. 5, Mondadori, Milan 1995
M. Agnellini, Arte Contemporanea Italiana. Opere e mercato di pittori e scultori 1945–1994, I cataloghi d’arte della Fenice,
Fenice 2000, Milan 1994, no. 2 with ill.

“The ‘natura morta’ has another name in German and English, much more beautiful and much more accurate. This name is: ‘Stillleben’, ‘still life’. It is a painting, in fact, that represents the ‘silent life’ of objects and things, a calm life, without noise and without movement, an existence that is expressed through volume, form, plasticity.”

(Giorgio de Chirico)