Artist: Giorgio De Chirico (1888 - 1978)
Nationality: Italian
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: (40)
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Giorgio de Chirico, Piazza d"Italia, 1915
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Giorgio de Chirico, Gli Archeologi IV (The Archaeologists IV), from the series Metamorphosis, 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, 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 Sailors' Barracks 1914 oil on canvas Norton Museum of 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 Song of Love 1914 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art 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 - The Anxious Journey 1913 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern 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 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, 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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Giorgio Morandi, Still Life, 1953
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Joseph Pennell, San Giorgio, Venice, 1883
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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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Giorgio Morandi, Paesaggio. Grizzana., 1931
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Giorgio Ghisi , The Prison, 16th century
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Giorgio Sommer, Fountain, Italy, circa 1870
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Giorgio Ghisi , Apollo and the Muse, circa 1557
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Joseph Nash, Church of San Giorgio dei Greci, 1843
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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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Robert Hinshelwood, San Giorgio, Venice, 19th century
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Carl Thiemann, San Giorgio, Venice, 20th century
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Giorgio Sommer, Untitled [View of Rome], circa 1880
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Giorgio Sommer, Soldiers" Quarters, Pompeii, 19th century
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Giorgio Morandi, Gruppo di Zinnie (Group of Zinnias), 1931
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Giorgio Vasari, Figure Composition, 16th century
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Giorgio Ghisi , The Calumny of Apelles, after Luca Penni, 1560
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Giorgio Ghisi , Thetis, after Perino del Vaga, 16th century
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Giorgio Ghisi , Venus and the Rose, after Luca Penni, 1556

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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