Could it be that life - this is one huge lie?
Maybe she's just a shadow of an elusive dream?
This thought haunted by Giorgio de Chirico, it pervades all his works, from the very first canvas to the last. Yesterday we talked about his self-portraits. Here are other treasures of his heritage.
This "Mystery of the hour" (private sobyuranie, 55 x 71) written in 1911, when he opened for himself Paris. Rather, it is his first metaphysical canvas, the first in which the architecture takes center stage. Three characters barely identified, figure sailor (?) On the left too insignificant. You can already find the elements of classical architecture, structuration of space, yet very front, and of course, watches, compositional and semantic center of the picture. In 1917, in his book "unsettling hour", he wrote: "The untitled hour on the dial of human time" ...
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At the end of life, in 1971, de Chirico painted «Il Meditatore», «musing" (Foundation Giorgio and Isa de Chirico in Rome; 149 x 147). This seated man with disproportionately long torso covered with white flames that stifle it, as sea monsters Albino attacking neego - an allegory, this is tight, nerasshifruema. Orgomnaya right hand, it seems, extended in arguing for the gesture, while the left, a tiny, atrophied these belyami languages. Thoughts can not be alarming, with no illusions.
I must say that I was incredibly intriguing to de Chirico to counterfeiting. On the one hand, he has consistently denounced fakes his early and completely original work (see photo in «Paese Sera» on June 2, 1977). On the other - it secret from everyone repeating some of his early works. So there were other artists, in particular Munch. But it seems that de Chirico did so with particular glee: looking at his works, these modern replicas, not to say that his talent was exhausted, that these remarks - the generation of senile senile. Perhaps, in these repetitions of the early works is an element nostallgicheskogo return to his youth, but for me the most important thing in this - the denial of a masterpiece, a unique product of a fetish, that Robert Mozeruell called "beautiful suicide". And in the end, not whether they are the best copies of a mockery of the Surrealists, who cursed him - is to destroy the value of the product - because by doing so he beat them at their own field of battle!
collection Berger Sale /Saint-Laurent: Pompidou Center, bought a fake Chirico?
On the sale of the collection Berger /Saint-Laurent Pompidou Center took advantage of their preferential right and purchased for 11 million euros now "Alien (ghost), written in Ferrara in 1917-18, the second title of which -" The Return of Napoleon III ».
In the Christie's catalog said: "The buyer will receive a certificate of authenticity, issued by the Fund Giorgio and Isa de Chirico. But the historian's picture and its owners, printed in the catalog is incomplete.
Indeed, it is necessary to carefully read the magazine Fine Arts »(« eaux-Arts ») for February 2009 It tells the following story: In 1972, de Chirico came to the Museum of Decorative Arts before the close of the exhibition devoted to surrealism. He declared that four of the canvas of the under his name (including painting, bought by the Center Pompidou), forgery and called the bailiff that he has imposed on them in order to arrest further destruction. Vladitsa paintings, Beatrice Cole, went to court and bring proof of the authenticity of works. Then de Chirico told the judge that he had challenged the authenticity of neskoll to hundreds of works that were attributed to him. There was a lot of expertise, the lawyers were fighting with each other. De Chirico died in the midst of trial, and his widow has refused to continue the lawsuit. Paintings to be genuine, and one of them sold Berger /Saint-Laurent.
You can be sure that the picture that we see in the speed of the Pompidou Center - the original, all except for the approval of the zudozhnika, svidetetelstvuet about this (quite conclusively that the museum knew about this story, although Christie's and shamefully silent about it .
I repeat: this artist renounces his works, I was intrigued. Some say on the subject of self-hatred, of the insult to the Surrealists, others believe that such actions are explained mercantile considerations. But even if all of these reasons do exist, primarily in the behavior of de Chirico I think it's nihilism, the rejection of "shedevrizatsii 'reluctance to take some other place, it is the negation of the art world.