Roman Artist, Giorgio De Chirico

1949

Gordon Parks

Associated Names
Gordon Parks

Artist, American, 1912 - 2006

The image shows a man in the foreground leaning slightly forward towards the camera. He has distinct facial features with a prominent nose and lips, light-colored hair combed to the side, and is wearing a dark sleeveless sweater over a light-colored shirt. Behind him is a woman captured from the waist up, facing sideways with her hair pulled back and wearing a long-sleeve, light-colored blouse. Next to the man is a painting in a heavy frame depicting a figure with light hair in a contemplative pose. The background is blurred but shows another painting partially visible behind the figures.
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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gordon Parks, New York; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1998; acquired by NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, center perpendicular in graphite circled: 42; bottom left corner in graphite: 15; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right corner in graphite: CGA#176 [exhibition number for Half Past Autumn]

Wikidata ID

Q64154431

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