Two Mysterious Cabins

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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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