Art: De Chirico for Scheiners

Pale, stooped Georgio de Chirico is one of the best known surrealistic painters of the School of Paris. Artist de Chirico is a realist as well as a surrealist. He ekes out his income with commissions for fashion illustrations, magazine covers. Art-lovers who flocked to a fancy Fifth Avenue address last week to see de Chirico's latest work, found themselves in a tailor shop.

For the Brothers Benno, Leo, Marco & Emil Scheiner, fresh from Europe, Artist de Chirico had fashioned a twelve-foot mural. A curly-headed youth in a collar much too big for...

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