Artist: Giorgio de Chirico [d'apres] (Italian, 1888 - 1978). Title: "Il Consolatore". Medium: Pencil drawing on paper. Date: Composed c1955. Dimensions: Overall size: 12 3/8 x 8 5/8 in. (314 x 219 mm). Image size: 8 1/8 x 7 5/8 in. (206 x 194 mm). Lot Note(s): Bears spurious signature, lower right. Light cream wove watermarked paper. Good condition; handwriting verso which telegraphs through to recto, scattered foxing, waviness upper part of paper due to paper itself. Comment(s): Chirico was a Greek-born Italian artist. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. After 1919 he became interested in traditional painting techniques, and worked in a neoclassical or neo-Baroque style, while frequently revisiting the metaphysical themes of his earlier work. [28167-2-225]