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Giorgio de Chirico

Le Mystère Laïc: Essai d'Étude Indirecte

1928

Two soft ground etchings and five photolithographs

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Author Jean Cocteau
Medium Two soft ground etchings and five photolithographs
Dimensions irreg. page 9 9/16 x 7 1/2" (24 x 19 cm) Prints: various dimensions.
Publisher Éditions des Quatre Chemins, Paris
Printer Ducros & Colas, Paris
Edition 3000 (1 numbered 1 on imperial Japan with etchings, supplementary drawing, and manuscript and drawing by Cocteau; 10 numbered 2-11 on imperial Japan with etchings and 2 supplementary galley sheets; 25 numbered 12-36 on Holland with etchings; 64 numbered 37-100 on Rives Annam; 25 H.C. numbered I-XXV; 2875)
Credit Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund and Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund
Object number 34.1985.1-2
Department Drawings and Prints

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Giorgio de Chirico

Giorgio de Chirico

Italian, born Greece. 1888–1978 109 works online

To live in the world as in an immense museum of strange things.” So wrote the Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico, who made paintings of classical piazzas populated with spectral figures and shadows, knitting together purposefully distorted perspectives and tilted grounds.

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