drawing
- Museum number
- 1982,0327.4
- Description
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Figure Metafisiche (Metaphysical figures); a room with a torso, geometric shapes and a column terminating in semi-abstract female form. 1918
Graphite
- Production date
- 1918
- Dimensions
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Height: 314 millimetres
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Width: 218 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Label text from 2010-11 Oct-April BM, Picasso to Julie Mehretu
De Chirico is perhaps the most famous Italian painter of the past century. Much of his early training was in Munich and Paris, but it was in the years of the First World War, which he spent in Ferrara, that he developed with Carlo Carrà their so-called 'metaphysical painting'. His most familiar works are in oil on canvas, but he also made numerous pencil drawings on a small scale with the same types of composition containing mannequin figures in claustrophobic spaces. These were finished works in their own right, and were not used as studies for paintings.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1984, BM, Master Drawings & Watercolours, no. 202
1989 Mar-Apr (5 days), International Contemporary Art Fair, Olympia
1990 April-Aug, BM, Treasures of P&D (no cat.)
2010-11 Oct-April BM, Picasso to Julie Mehretu (no cat.)
- Acquisition date
- 1982
- Acquisition notes
- This item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45. The British Museum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1982,0327.4
