In programmatic fashion in his self-portrait, de Chirico proclaims the enigma as the stimulus and goal of his artistic search. It is this mysterious strangeness of things in de Chirico's paintings, with their mood of profound loneliness and melancholy, which is so immediately striking.

The departure of the Argonaut

The loneliness of modern man

The metaphysics of everyday things

Pictor classicus sum"

"Statues, furniture and generals"

"I have always painted the way I wanted to"

Chronology