Self-portrait by Giorgio de Chirico

De Chirico painted several portraits of his second wife, Isabella, but, by and large, this genre was never particularly attracted to him. An exception to this rule was a series of self-portraits, in which the artist captured himself in various clothes and in different years of life. Most self-portraits are sustained in a realistic manner such, for example, a self-portrait written in 1945.

Probably, de Chirico tried to follow the example of Rembrandt, who created his own “chronicle in self-portraits.” In favor of this assumption, his experiments on trying on various masks – a robber-gypsy, an artist for an easel or, finally, a grandee in a 17th-century costume – also speak of him.

Related Paintings

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