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The Enigma of a Day
Giorgio de Chirico (Italian, born Greece. 1888–1978)
Paris, early 1914. Oil on canvas, 6' 1 1/4" x 55" (185.5 x 139.7 cm). James Thrall Soby Bequest
Collection work meeting criteria specified in Introduction.
1211.1979
Paul Guillaume, Paris
Galerie Surréaliste, Paris. By 1928
André Breton, Paris. [By 1933] - 1935
Pierre Matisse, New York. On consignment from Breton in August 1935
James Thrall Soby (1906-1979), New Canaan, Connecticut. Purchased from Breton through Pierre Matisse, December 4, 1935 - 1979
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. James Thrall Soby Bequest, 1979
L'énigme d'une journée (L'enigma di una giornata)
L'énigme d'une journée (I) (The Enigma of a Day [I])
L'enigma di un giorno
[L'enigma di una giornata I]
[L'Énigme d'une journée]
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