When the distinguished collectors of early modern artLouise and Walter Arensberg bought Giorgio de Chirico'spainting The Soothsayer's Recompense in 1932 on the adviceof their friend Marcel Duchamp．it entered a collection ofworks of art already celebrated for their visual and intellectual challenge to viewers．Analvtical Cubism．Dada andSurrealism，the intricate visual architecture of Paul K1ee'spaintings，and the enigmatic output of Duchamp himselfwere sources of endless fascination for the Arensbergs，who relished the game of deciphering puzzles and crackingvisual codes．ThP Soothsayer’S Recompense came tO thePhiladelphia Museum ofArt in 1950 as part of the couple'sextraordinary gift of their entire collection to this institution．

Foreword

ANNE D'HARNONCOURT

ANN TEMKIN

Acknowledgments

Between Modernism and Mythology:

Giorgio de Chirico and the Ariadne Series

MICHAEL R. TAYLOR

Rewinding Ariadne's Thread:

De Chirico and Greece, Past and Present

MATTHEW GALE

Catalogue

MICHAEL R. TAYLOR

Premonitions

The Ariadne Series

Ariadne on Paper, 1912-17

Ariadne's Return

The Piazza d'ltalia Paintings

Warhol and de Chirico

Max Ernst on de Chirico

A Conversation with Gerard Tempest

Chronology

EMILY HAGE

Checklist

GUIGONE ROLLAND

Selected Bibliography

Index