Artist: Giorgio De Chirico (1888 - 1978)
Nationality: Greek
Movement: Surrealism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Giorgio de Chirico was born in Greece and studied in Athens and Munich. Early in his career he collaborated with Carlo Carra in Italy, creating the concept of metaphysical painting. In 1910, Chirico began to favor lonely, deserted cityscapes with a dream-like feeling, paintings which lead to the formation of Surrealism. During the World War I period, he reverted to his metaphysical paintings, and in the 1920’s he stepped into the realm of abstraction. At the end of his career, he changed his focus to a more traditional and naturalist style.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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Giorgio de Chirico Piazza d'Italia oil on burlap canvas 1915
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Giorgio de Chirico Gli Archeologi IV (The Archaeologists IV), from the series Metamorphosis Color lithograph 1929
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Giorgio de Chirico Il Ritorno del Figliuol Prodigo I (The Return of the Prodigal Son I), from the series Metamorphosis Color lithograph 1929
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Giorgio de Chirico - The Duo 1914-1915 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Italian
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Giorgio de Chirico - The Enigma of a Day 1914 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Italian
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Giorgio de Chirico - Andromache 1916 oil on panel The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Italian
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Giorgio de Chirico - The Seer 1914-1915 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Italian
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Giorgio de Chirico - The Scholar's Playthings 1917 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts Italian
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Giorgio de Chirico - The Serenity of the Scholar 1914 oil and charcoal on The Museum of Modern Art Italian
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Giorgio de Chirico - Metaphysical Interior 1917 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art Italian
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Giorgio de Chirico - The Anxious Journey 1913 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Italian
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Giorgio de Chirico - The Sailors' Barracks 1914 oil on canvas Norton Museum of Art Italian
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Giorgio de Chirico - The Philosopher's Conquest 1914 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago Italian
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Giorgio de Chirico - The Song of Love 1914 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Italian
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Giorgio de Chirico - The Double Dream of Spring 1915 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Italian
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Giorgio de Chirico - Great Metaphysical Interior 1917 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Italian
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Ariadne, 1913 Giorgio de Chirico (Italian, born Greece, 1888-1978)Oil and graphite on canvas; 53 3/8
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Giorgio de Chirico - Florentine Still Life (Balcone a Firenze) c. 1923 oil on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Italian
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Giorgio de Chirico - Gare Montparnasse (The Melancholy of Departure) 1914 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Italian
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Giorgio de Chirico - The Eventuality of Destiny (Monumental Figures) 1927 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago Italian
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Giorgio Vasari Sheet of Drawings, after Giorgio Vasari Etching in brown ink 16th century
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James McNeill Whistler - The Church of San Giorgio Maggiore c. 1880 chalk and pastel on Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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Gaspar ab Avibus (Osella) Venus and the Rose, after the engraving by Giorgio Ghisi after Luca Penni Engraving 1564
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Joseph Mallord William Turner - Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore 1834 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art British
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The Nativity Francesco di Giorgio (Francesco Maurizio di Giorgio di Martino Pollaiuolo) (Italian, Sienese, 1439-1501)Tempera
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Canaletto - Capriccio: The Rialto Bridge and the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore c. 1750 oil on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art Italian
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Joseph Mallord William Turner - View of Venice: The Ducal Palace, Dogana, and Part of San Giorgio 1841 oil on canvas Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College English
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Gaspar ab Avibus (Osella) Allegory of the Hunt, after the engraving by Giorgio Ghisi from a design by Luca Penni Engraving 1563
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Artist: Giorgio Ghisi Title: Allegory of Life, or The Dream of Raphael, or Melancholy of
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Giovanni Battista Mercati A St. Giorgio doux pagatano j Soldati Romani (At S. Giorgio, Where They Paid the Roman Soldiers), pl. 30 from the series Alcune vedute et prospettive di luoghi dishabitati di Roma (Some Views and Perspectives of the Uninhabited P
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Giorgio Ghisi Venus and Vulcan Seated on a Bed engraving ca. 1555
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Robert Hinshelwood San Giorgio, Venice Engraving 19th century
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Giorgio Ghisi Apollo and the Muse engraving circa 1557
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Dress, spring/summer 1971 Designed by Giorgio di Sant"Angelo (American, born Italy, 1933 - 1989)American; Made
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Giorgio Ghisi Three Muses and a Putto with Cymbals, after Primaticcio Engraving 1560 - 1570
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Giorgio Ghisi Venus and Adonis, after Teodoro Ghisi Engraving circa 1570
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Giorgio Ghisi Venus and the Rose, after Luca Penni Engraving 1556
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Giorgio Ghisi The Calumny of Apelles, after Luca Penni Engraving 1560
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Giorgio Ghisi Hercules, Bacchus, Pan and Another God, after Primaticcio Engraving 1560 - 1570
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Giorgio Ghisi Angelica and Medoro, after Teodoro Ghisi Engraving circa 1570
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Giorgio Ghisi The Prison, after Giulio Romano Engraving 16th century
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Giorgio Ghisi Thetis, after Perino del Vaga Engraving 16th century
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Giorgio Ghisi The Prison Engraving 16th century
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Giorgio Ghisi The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine, after Primaticcio Engraving 1550 - 1560
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Goddess of Chaste Love, fragment of a cassone panel, 1468-75 Francesco di Giorgio (Francesco Maurizio
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Giorgio Ghisi Venus and Adonis, after Teodoro Ghisi Engraving circa 1570
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Giorgio Ghisi The Vision of Ezekiel, after Giovanni Battista Bertani Engraving 1554
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Giorgio Ghisi Caius Marius in Prison, after Polidoro da Caravaggio Engraving 1560 - 1570
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Giorgio Ghisi Thetis Seated with a Triton, after Perino del Vaga Engraving 16th century
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Carl Thiemann San Giorgio, Venice color woodcut 20th century
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Giorgio Ghisi Venus and Vulcan at the Forge, after Perino del Vaga Engraving 1550 - 1560
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Giorgio Ghisi Venus and Vulcan at the Forge, after Perino del Vaga Engraving 1550 - 1560
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Giorgio Morandi Paesaggio. Grizzana. Etching 1931
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Giorgio Morandi Still Life graphite on off-white wove paper 1953
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Giorgio Ghisi The Death of Procris, after a drawing by Giulio Romano Engraving circa 1540
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Giorgio Ghisi Allegory of the Hunt, after a design by Luca Penni Engraving 1556
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Giorgio Ghisi The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, after the painting by Giulio Campi in S. Paolo, Milan. Engraving 1578
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Giorgio Sommer Fountain, Italy albumen print circa 1870
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Giorgio Ghisi The Mocking of the Prisoners, after Giulio Romano Engraving circa 1540
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Giorgio Ghisi Portrait of Michelangelo, after a copy by Marcello Venusti of a painting by Jacopino del Conte Engraving circa 1564
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Joseph Nash Church of San Giorgio dei Greci Lithograph 1843
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The Man of Sorrows with Two Angels, lunette, ca. 1470 Workshop of Francesco di Giorgio
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Giorgio Sommer Untitled [View of Rome] albumen print circa 1880
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Giorgio Ghisi The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine, after a painting by Correggio in the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples Engraving circa 1575
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Giorgio Ghisi The Persian Sibyl, from a series of six prints after Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling Engraving 19th century
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Giorgio Ghisi The Delphic Sibyl, from a series of six prints after Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling Engraving 19th century
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VVV, Nos. 1 (June 1942)–4 (February 1944) New York: VVV, 1942-1944Serial publication, illustrated; 4 nos.
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Giorgio Morandi Gruppo di Zinnie (Group of Zinnias) Etching 1931
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Giorgio Ghisi The Eritrean Sibyl, title page from a series of six prints after Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling Engraving 1570 - 1580
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Giorgio Ghisi Cupid and Psyche, after the fresco by Giulio Romano in the Sala di Psyche, Palazzo del Te, Mantua Engraving 1573 - 1574
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Giorgio Ghisi Allegory of Birth , after Giulio Romano's design for the fresco decoration of the Loggia della Grotta in the Palazzo Te, Mantua Engraving 1558
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Giorgio Ghisi The Prophet Joel, from a series of six prints after Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling Engraving 17th century
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Giorgio Ghisi The Prophet Jeremiah, from a series of six prints after Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling Engraving 17th century
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Giorgio Ghisi The Delphic Sibyl, from a series of six prints after Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling Engraving 17th century
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Giorgio Ghisi The Persian Sibyl, from a series of six prints after Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling Engraving 17th century
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George Percival Gaskell Venice: Riva degli Schiavoni and S. Giorgio Maggiore aquatint 19th - 20th century
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Giorgio Ghisi The Prophet Ezekiel, from a series of six prints after Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling Engraving early 17th century
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Giorgio Sommer Soldiers' Quarters, Pompeii Albumen print 19th century
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Giorgio Ghisi The Eritrean Sibyl, title page from a series of six prints after Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling Engraving 17th century
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Giorgio Morandi Natura Morte con la Tazzina Bianca a Sinistra (Still Life with the White Cup at the Left) Etching 1930
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Auguste Boulard (Fils) San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice (After Francesco Guardi) etching 19th - 20th century
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Giorgio Sommer 1206 Tempio di Mercurio, Pompei Albumen print 19th century
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Giovanni Battista de Cavalieri The Nativity, reverse copy of the engraving by Giorgio Ghisi (B. 3, L. 14)after the painting by Agnolo Bronzino now in the SzÈpm¸vÈszeti Museum, Budapest (no. 161) engraving 1565
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Giorgio Morandi Still Life with Bread Basket (small plate) Etching on light brown paper 1921
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Joseph Pennell San Giorgio, Venice Etching 1883
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Edward Lear San Giorgio, plate 12 opposite page 156 in the book Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria ([London]: Richard Bentley, 1852) lithograph 1852
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Giorgio Vasari Figure Composition Pen and brown ink , brown and red washes on laid paper mounted to heavier sheet 16th century
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Giorgio Sommer Costumi Napolitane (Customary Neapolitan Behavior), from an unidentified album Napoli (Naples) albumen print circa 1860 - 1870
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The Story of Paris
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Giorgio Morandi - Still Life c. 1955 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Italian
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Giorgio Morandi - Still Life 1959 oil on canvas Des Moines Art Center Italian
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Giorgio Morandi - Still Life c. 1955 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Italian
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Giorgio Morandi - Still Life 1942 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts Italian
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Giorgio Morandi - Still Life c. 1950 pencil Arkansas Arts Center Italian
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Francesco di Giorgio Martini - Fidelity c. 1485 Fresco transferred t Norton Simon Museum Italian
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Giorgio Vasari - Head of an old man 16th century chalk on paper Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum Italian
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Studies of a Male Nude, Drapery, and a Hand
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The Doge"s Palace Seen from San Giorgio Maggiore, 1908 Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)Oil on canvas;
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Francesco di Giorgio Martini - Saint Sebastian c. 1475-1485 bronze National Gallery of Art Italian
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Francesco di Giorgio Martini - The Judgement of Paris c. 1475-1485 bronze National Gallery of Art Italian

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (13)
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Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art: Giorgio de Chirico and the Myth of Ariadne
This exhibition, which was first shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, brings together the entire Ariadne series, including such masterpieces as The Soothsayer's Recompense (1913), along with related drawings and sculpture, including an antique...
Ellen Traut Collection Gallery: The Fiber Revolution: Quilts As Art
Art quilts are highly collectible artwork. Judy Weinstein of the Greater Hartford Arts Council said, "I was just bowled over by the talents of the artists ... absolutely gorgeous!" Allison Hunnicutt, co-manager of the Chen Gallery at Central C...
Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona: The City That Never Was: Fantastic Architectures in Western Art
The exhibition brings together in the region of 80 works of art on a variety of supports, including frescoes, painting, photography and installations. It turns around the genre of the architectural capriccio, from the 16th to the 18th century, wit...
cherrydelosreyes: Antonio Adriano Puleo: To This World I Must Give In
The figures in Puleo’s paintings are either headless, as in Protect Your Neck (I Feel My Head Going Down Again) or “block heads.”  They almost always have a divine type of presence due to graphic beams of light penetrating apertures in the block h...
Christie's: PRINTS CHARMING: 20th Century Prints
Two etchings printed with tone by Lucien Freud will be on offer in the British section of the sale, Man Resting (1988) may fetch up to £4,000 while Two men in the Studio (1989) carries an estimate of £1,000-1,200. An ...
Michael Dunev Art Projects: Ramon Enich: Paintings
Ramón Enrich is a painter of exquisite urban landscapes rendered with an oblique light, clear and intense, that gives strong relief to the architectural elements that are the basis of his compositions. Referred to by the artist as a cross between ...
National Galleries of Scotland, Dean Gallery and the Gallery of Modern Art: THE SURREALIST AND THE PHOTOGRAPHER: ROLAND PENROSE AND LEE MILLER
Already a Surrealist artist of considerable talent, Penrose became a tireless champion of modern art through his activities as a collector, writer and exhibition organiser. A former Vogue model, Lee Miller was a remarkable photographer who later ...
Art Gallery of New South Wales: RENOIR TO PICASSO: Masterpieces from the Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris
These are paintings from a legendary collection founded by the great Parisian art dealer Paul Guillaume, whose remarkable achievement was to persuade wealthy P...
Centre Georges Pompidou: Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences
This spectacular exhibition will include 200 nineteenth- and twentieth-century artworks - paintings, drawings, prints, illustrated books and sculpture - and 300 cinema documents - production stills, posters, story boards, and set and ...
Montreal Museum of Fine Art: Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences
Hitchcock: The Man and His Art Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) made more than fifty films. His name, synonymous with suspense, is legendary in the annals of cinematic history. He is ...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Philip Guston Retrospective
Philip Guston Retrospective was organized by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas. The curator of the exhibition is Michael Auping, chief curator of the Modern Art Museum; overseeing the San Francisco presentation is Madeleine Grynsztejn, El...
Phillips Collection: Surrealism and Modernism from the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Notably, the Atheneum was the first museum in the world to purchase a painting by Salvador Dalí (1931) and the first American museum to acquire works by surrealist Joan Miró (1934), the Paris-born painter known as Balthus (1938), and American surr...
Bergen Art Museum: Anxiety and Desire. Surrealism in Scandinavia 1930-1950
The Scandinavian Surrealists were eccentric and individualistic, their art received criticism and alienation in their home countries. They personally knew, exhibited internationally with and were inspired by S.Dali, P.Klee, V.Kandinsky, M.Ernst as...

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