The Double Dream of Spring
1915 painting by Giorgio de Chirico
22+1⁄8 in × 21+3⁄8 in)The Double Dream of Spring (also known as Doppio Sogno di Primavera, 1915) is a painting by the Italian metaphysical painter Giorgio de Chirico.
The painting depicts apparently related but separate scenes. The scene on the left shows a statue of a man in a frock-coat from behind. The statue appears to be staring contemplatively into an open sky. The two scenes are separated in the middle by a wooden beam, perhaps part of an easel. Near the base of the beam is a blueprint drawing of an interior, in which large arches and a window open onto a landscape including the stick-like figures of two men meeting, and distant mountains. The scene on the right appears to be looking down on the same landscape from a slightly different angle. Above the landscape is the shape of the head of a tailor's dummy.
Similar dummies appear many times in de Chirico's work (cf. The Seer). This time the dummy's head looms over the landscape like a hot air balloon.
The title was used by John Ashbery for his 1970 book of poems.
Sources
- Museum of Modern Art
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Giorgio de Chirico
- The Enigma of the Hour (1911)
- The Nostalgia of the Infinite (c. 1911)
- Le Rêve Transformé (1913)
- The Soothsayer's Recompense (1913)
- Ariadne (1913)
- The Child's Brain (1914)
- Gare Montparnasse (1914)
- The Song of Love (1914)
- The Double Dream of Spring (1915)
- The Melancholy of Departure (1916)
- Metaphysical Interior with Biscuits (1916)
- Metaphysical Interior with Large Factory (1916-17)
- The Disquieting Muses (c. 1917)
- The Great Tower (1921)
- The Prodigal Son (1922)
- Venecia, Puente de Rialto (1950)
- Giorgio de Chirico: Argonaut of the Soul (2010)
- Alberto Savinio (brother)
- Hebdomeros (1929 book)
- Metaphysical art
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