These 42 drawings by Alberto Savinio, for the most part unpublished, date from the years 1925–32, when the artist and his brother, Giorgio de Chirico, lived in Paris. Savinio’s graphic production from these years has been poorly documented up to now, and the discovery of 25 drawings and two collages in a private collection in Paris helps to reconstruct his development during the period in which he grew accomplished in the field of painting, as he had already become in music, literature, and theater.

The iconographic themes in these drawings vary little from those of Savinio’s paintings of the