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Sandro Chia

born 1946

Water Bearer 1981
© Sandro Chia/VAGA, New York and DACS, London 2025
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2 artworks by Sandro Chia
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Biography

Sandro Chia (born 20 April 1946) is an Italian painter and sculptor. In the late 1970s and early 1980s he was, with Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Nicola De Maria, and Mimmo Paladino, a principal member of the Italian Neo-Expressionist movement which was baptised Transavanguardia by Achille Bonito Oliva.

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Neo-expressionism Transavanguardia

Artworks

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  • The Artifice

    Sandro Chia
    1981
  • To the Tower

    Sandro Chia
    1981
  • About the Unseizable

    Sandro Chia
    1981
  • A Good Soul

    Sandro Chia
    1981
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  • And the Heroes at the Window

    Sandro Chia
    1981
  • Running Boy with Strange Fingers

    Sandro Chia
    1981
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  • The Butcher

    Sandro Chia
    1981
  • Water Bearer

    Sandro Chia
    1981
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