Subasta Bidspirit | After Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978)

After Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) - Gladiators (Gladiatori), c. 1930's. After to Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) | Italian Gladiators (Gladiatori) , c. 1930's Engraving on Paper Bears a pencil inscription ‘G. de Chirico’ at the lower right and a further pencil inscription at the lower left. The inscription has not been verified as the artist’s own signature: this is a reproduction after de Chirico, and the inscription is not offered as, and should not be read as, a signature by Giorgio de Chirico. Framer’s stamp ‘Arte Cuadro, Alicante’ on the reverse. Dimensions: Framed, glazed: 27 × 21 cm | 10.6 × 8.3 in Artwork: 24 × 18 cm | 9.4 × 7.1 in Provenance: Private Collection, Spain. Condition: Very good condition: the sheet evenly toned, with a crisp plate mark and clear linework; two small, isolated spots of foxing in the lower part of the image; signed and numbered 5/100 in pencil; no tears, losses or restoration; not examined out of the frame. Please contact us to request a detailed Condition Report. Conditions of Sale: The sale of this lot is final. Shipping: Aurora & Athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. Buyers are equally welcome to collect in Barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. Lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. For shipments outside the EU an export licence may be required and Spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. No export tax applies within the EU. Full shipping and export information is available on request. -- Three gladiators fight in a bare, box-like room while a fourth lies fallen in the foreground; through an opening at the back, other figures look on. The composition, the deliberately archaic anatomy and the theatrical, airless setting all belong to the gladiator cycle that Giorgio de Chirico painted and drew between 1927 and the mid-1930s for the collector Léonce Rosenberg and for his own increasingly classical programme. The print is offered after Giorgio de Chirico’s etching ‘Combattimento di Gladiatori, ’ one of the plates he made for Jean Cocteau’s Le Mystère Laïc (Paris, 1928), reproducing that composition rather than being from the artist’s own hand. It bears a pencil inscription ‘G. de Chirico’ at the lower right and a further pencil inscription at the lower left, and on the reverse the stamp of a framer in Alicante. The inscription has not been verified as de Chirico’s own signature and is not offered as one: the work is catalogued as after de Chirico, and the inscription is recorded only as a mark found on the sheet. Framed under glass.