Artist: Giorgio de Chirico (Italian, 1888-1978). Title: "Interno con Figure Metafisiche". Medium: Mixed media drawing. Date: Composed c1930s. Dimensions: Overall size: 12 3/8 x 8 3/8 in. (314 x 213 mm). Lot Note(s): Signed lower right. Light cream wove paper. Overall very good condition; some staining upper center margin, well away from image. Comment(s): Chirico was a Greek-born Italian artist. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. After 1919 he became interested in traditional painting techniques, and worked in a neoclassical or neo-Baroque style, while frequently revisiting the metaphysical themes of his earlier work. Image copyright © Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico. [27373-2-1600]