"Chaos and Classicism" at the Guggenheim
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Gladiators at Rest, Giorgio de Chirico, 1928-29
Before the war de Chirico was famous for his series of enigmatic street scenes that later inspired the Surrealists. But in the 1920s he turned to classical pastiche rendered with clunky draughtsmanship.
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