The Torment of the Poet Artist: Giorgio de Chirico (Italian, 1888–1978)

1914

Modern and Contemporary Art

On view, 3rd floor, Modern and Contemporary Art and Design
Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

20 3/4 × 16 1/8 in. (52.7 × 41 cm)
framed: 28 1/16 × 23 3/8 × 1 7/8 in. (71.28 × 59.37 × 4.76 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Kay Sage Tanguy

Accession Number

1963.43.2

Culture

Italian

Period

20th century

Classification

Paintings

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Bibliography
  • Christopher Green and Jens M. Daehner, Modern Antiquity: Picasso, De Chirico, Léger, Picabia, exh. cat. (Los Angelos: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011), 81, pl. 26, ill
  • Jonathan Stuhlman and Stephen Robeson Miller, Double Solitaire: The Surreal Worlds of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy, exh. cat. (Katonah, N.Y.: Katonah Museum of Art, 2011), 26, fig. 11
Object copyright
Copyright Artist/Estate/Foundation
In Copyright
Additional information

Object/Work type

human figures (visual works)

Subject

building poet

Signed

Signed: lower right "G. de Chirico"

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