DETAILS
- Artist
- Giorgio de Chirico
- Date
- 1912
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- 34 3/8 × 27 1/2 in. (87.3 × 69.9 cm)
- Collection
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Credit line
- Gift in memory of Carl Van Vechten and Fania Marinoff, 1970
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THE ARTIST
Giorgio de Chirico
Giorgio de Chirico founded Metaphysical Painting, profoundly influencing Surrealism with his enigmatic cityscapes of arcades, shadows, and mannequins.
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