In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
As a child in the coastal city of Volos, Greece, de Chirico was fascinated by beachside changing-cabins, specifically as the sites of adults' transformation from a "heroic" clothed mode into a state of vulnerable, primordial nudity. Here, a man in a business suit gazes toward the horizon as two nude figures wade in a stream of parquet-patterned water connecting three of de Chirico's "mysterious" cabins. De Chirico believed existence to be a transitory puzzle; the partially obscured figures here, moving amid their static surroundings, speak to this perspective.
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Yves Tanguy — Untitled
Fernand Léger — The Bridge
Jean Hugo — The Flight (Beginning of the End of the World)
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904–2000) — Lake Erie P
Joan Miró — Group of Personages (Groupe de personnages)
John Atherton — The Black Horse
William Tasker — National Defense
Joseph De Martini — Docks on Sunday
Oskar Schlemmer — Die Frauenschule
Juan Gris — Abstract Composition
Liz Clarke — The Balloon Man
Fernand Léger — Study for The Disks in the City
