Artist: Sandro Chia Artwork Title: Seated Man Size: 33.5 x 27.5 cm Media: Mixed media on paper Date:

Artist: Sandro Chia Artwork Title: Seated Man Size: 33.5 x 27.5 cm Media: Mixed media on paper Date: 1991 Artist Info: Sandro Chia was born in Florence in 1946. He studied at the Istituto d’Arte and then at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence where he graduated in 1969. After graduation, he travelled extensively in India, Turkey and throughout Europe before settling in Rome in 1970. During the 1970’s he began to exhibit in Rome and Europe, gradually moving away from conceptual works towards a more figurative style of painting. Between September 1980 and August 1981 he received a scholarship from the city of Monchengladbach in Germany where he moved to work for a year. The following year he moved to New York City, where he will remain for over two decades, with frequent trips back to Montalcino, near Siena in Italy. He is part of the Italian “Transavanguardia” movement, exhibiting in many of the most important museums and galleries of the world. He has exhibited at the Biennale of Paris and San Paolo and three times at the Venice Biennale. His work has been part of internationally acclaimed museum group shows. Amongst his most important personal shows are exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam (1983), the Metropolitan Museum of New York (1984), the National Galerie of Berlin (1984, 1992), the Museum of Modern Art of Paris (1984); the Museums of Dusseldorf (1984), Antwerp (1989), Mexico City (1989); Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence (1991); the Museums of Karlsruhe (1992), Palm Springs (1993), Villa Medici in Rome (1995); Palazzo Reale in Milan (1997), the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida (1997), the Galleria Civica of Siena (1997), the Galleria Civica in Trento (2000), the Museo d’Arte of Ravenna (2000); Palazzo Pitti and the Museo Archeologico Nazionale of Florence (2002); and most recently the Duomo of St. Agostino in Pietrasanta (2005) and Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna of Rome (GNAM) (2010). Sandro Chia Museum Exhibitions and collections (among others): Tate Collection; Metropolitan Museum of New York; Museum of Modern Art of Paris; National Galerie of Berlin; Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam; Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence; Palazzo Reale in Milan; Villa Medici in Rome; Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida; Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna of Rome. Notes: An artwork by Sando Chia was sold for £252,500 in 2007 (Christie's, Lot 263, oil on canvas, 194.9 x 259.7cm) In 2003, the Italian State acquired three important works of his for the permanent collection of the Italian Senate at Palazzo Madama, and in 2005 two monumental sculptures were acquired by the Province of Rome and placed in front of its headquarters in Via IV Novembre, Rome.