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Sandro CHIA (1946 - )

Italian painter, born in Florence, where he studied at the Academy. In the early 1970s he experimented with *Conceptual and *Performance art, but h… [Read biography »]

Signed CHIA, Lithograph printed in colors on six sheets of Somerset soft white paper, Childrens Holiday, 1984

Artist:	Chia, Sandro (1946 - )
Title:	Childrens Holiday, 1984
Medium:	Lithograph printed in colors on six sheets of Somerset soft white paper
Image Size:	77 1/8 in x 71 1/4 in (196.3 cm x 181.3 cm)
Sheet Size:	35 3/4 in x 25 3/4 in (each)
Framed Size:	unframed
Signed:	This work contains a guaranteed authentic signature by Chia in white crayon, with date
Edition:	This work is numbered out of the edition of 75 in the lower left. Publisher’s ink stamp appears on the verso in the lower left: “© 1984 CFP CORP.”
Condition:	Minor skinning on verso of about 2-3 sheets (not visible from front) -- all from prior adhesives. Image not affected
Price:	$9,000 (Summer Sales Event 20% off price: $7,200)

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Sandro Chia biography

Sandro Chia (1946 - )

Italian painter, born in Florence, where he studied at the Academy. In the early 1970s he experimented with *Conceptual and *Performance art, but he returned to painting in 1975 and by the end of the decade he had adopted the style with which he has become one of the best-known Italian painters of his generation, characteristically featuring muscle-bound figures in 122 pseudo-heroic situations parodying the Old Masters (Courageous Boys at Work, NG of Modem Art, Edinburgh, 1981). Robert *Hughes describes his figures as 'ladylike coal-heavers expelling wind while floating in postures vaguely derived from classical statuary'. Chia has also made sculpture in a similar vein.

Chilvers, Ian, Oxford Dictionary of 20th Century Art, Oxford University Press, 1998.