The Soothsayer's Recompense
Giorgio de Chirico, Italian (born Greece), 1888 - 1978
Geography:
Made in France, Europe
Date:
1913Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
53 3/8 × 70 7/8 inches (135.6 × 180 cm)Copyright:
© 2009 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, RomeCuratorial Department:
European Painting
1950-134-38Credit Line:
The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950
Made in France, Europe
Date:
1913Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
53 3/8 × 70 7/8 inches (135.6 × 180 cm)Copyright:
© 2009 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, RomeCuratorial Department:
European Painting
* Gallery 169, Modern and Contemporary Art, first floor
Accession Number:1950-134-38Credit Line:
The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950
Label:
This painting is one of a series of melancholic cityscapes that de Chirico painted featuring a lone statue in a deserted Italian piazza. The antique statue represents the sleeping Ariadne, who according to Greek mythology was abandoned by her lover on the desert island of Naxos. The confrontation of the classical world with a modern steam engine in the distance creates an uneasy ambiguity of time and space.
This painting is one of a series of melancholic cityscapes that de Chirico painted featuring a lone statue in a deserted Italian piazza. The antique statue represents the sleeping Ariadne, who according to Greek mythology was abandoned by her lover on the desert island of Naxos. The confrontation of the classical world with a modern steam engine in the distance creates an uneasy ambiguity of time and space.
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