Giorgio De Chirico

Chirico, Giorgio de
Italian, 1888 - 1978

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The artwork features abstract figures with elongated, oval heads and minimal facial features, set within a geometric room. The central figure is seated in a chair with curved, arm-like shapes and is holding a decorative, shell-like object. Another figure stands beside it, draped in flowing garments. The scene includes human-like forms and is abstract through its surreal and stylized representation.
Giorgio De Chirico, Elettra Consolatrice (Electra Consoler), 1968, tempera and charcoal on paper, Gift of Maurizia Grossman in memory of my father, Francesco Lazari, 2025.112.1

Elettra Consolatrice (Electra Consoler)

Giorgio De Chirico · 1968 · tempera and charcoal on paper ·  Accession ID  2025.112.1
The artwork depicts a landscape view of the ancient Via Appia Antica. In the scene, there is a person dressed in a red garment walking along a path. Close to us, there is a tall, weathered stone structure with rough textures and a tree with dense foliage. Beyond that, the ruins of ancient buildings with arches and crumbling walls are visible. The horizon is low, showing distant hills under a vast sky with swirling brushstrokes. The color palette includes earthy tones of brown and beige for the ruins, contrasted with the lush green of the tree and the soft blue of the sky.
Giorgio De Chirico, Via Appia Antica, c. 1945/1950, oil on canvas, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Gibson Hodge, 1984.52.1

Via Appia Antica

Giorgio De Chirico · c. 1945/1950 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1984.52.1
The image depicts bold, black lines forming an abstract human-like figure, with twisting and intersecting lines creating a statue-like shape holding a shield and a spear. In the background, there are abstract interpretations of a landscape with architectural structures resembling ancient Greek temples and undulating lines representing clouds in the sky. The scene conveys a connection to classical mythology and art through familiar elements rendered in an abstract style.
Giorgio De Chirico, Gladiator, 1929, color lithograph, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.3368

Gladiator

Giorgio De Chirico · 1929 · color lithograph ·  Accession ID  1943.3.3368
A man, woman, a small table, chair, and two fragments of walls float on an octagonal, straw-colored floor amid a landscape with bare, rolling, olive-green hills in this stylized, vertical painting. The man and woman have pale skin and are positioned on opposite sides of the table from each other. To our left, the heavily-built man stands with his right hand, to our left, planted on the white tablecloth that nearly reaches the floor. He is cleanshaven with curly black hair, a round face, and a prominent nose. His large, dark eyes are deeply set, and a few cross-hatched black lines could indicate shadows or a black eye. His rumpled suit, vest, shirt, and tie are all sand brown. He looks toward a woman seated on our side of the table, opposite him. Her body is angled away from us to our right. Her blond hair is pulled up and she wears a white, sleeveless, floor-length dress that drapes over her shoulders and down her back. Her wooden chair has a teal-blue inset panel at the back and turned legs, and it sits on a pumpkin-orange, rectangular area rug. The paneled floor seems to float in the landscape. The robin’s egg-blue door to our right, opposite the woman, opens inward in its frame, and the corner above the top right is stacked with laid bricks. A sliver of wall alongside the door frame suggests the turning of a corner in the room. To our left, behind the man, a second fragment of yellow-paneled wall stands behind the corner of a dark, mahogany dresser or cabinet carved along its back with curving, S-shaped molding. A framed picture showing the head and shoulders of a woman in tones of white and gray against a periwinkle-blue background hangs at the top of the yellow wall. The curving back of a mint-green, upholstered chair peeks out over the woman’s right shoulder. The floor is set among barren hills with a watery blue sky above. The painting is created mostly with areas of flat colors with outlines and hatched shading in black and white, like pen strokes. The artist signed the painting on the floating floor near the lower right corner, “G. de Chirico.”
Giorgio De Chirico, Conversation among the Ruins, 1927, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.107

Conversation among the Ruins

Giorgio De Chirico · 1927 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.10.107
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Bagni Misteriosi

Giorgio De Chirico · 1930s · lithograph on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1983.121.1