© DACS, London 2007
The Uncertainty of the Poet
Giorgio de Chirico
- Art Funded
- 1986
- Dimensions
- 106 x 94 cm
- Vendor
- Executors of Sir Roland Penrose
The torso of a statue of a woman stands next to a very large bunch of bananas.
De Chirico called his pictures of this period 'metaphysical'. He creates a world that defies logical analysis by employing a scrupulously factual technique to describe a dislocated - and seemingly random - group of objects. The result possesses a revelatory power that makes de Chirico's works of 1912-15 among the greatest masterpieces of early twentieth-century painting.
Provenance
Sir Roland Penrose.