LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas, in two parts

Size Notes:

overall

Markings:

signed and dated 'Sandro Chia 1981' (lower right of right panel)

Exhibited:

New York, Guggenheim Museum, Italian Art Now: An American Perspective, September 1982 (illustrated, p. 24). New York, Sperone Westwater Gallery, Sandro Chia 1978-1988, March-April 1988.

Literature:

C. Radcliff, "On iconography and Some Italians", in Art in America, New York 1982, (illustrated, pp. 154-155).

Provenance:

Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York. Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1988.