Gare Montparnasse (The Melancholy of Departure)

Giorgio de Chirico · Paris, early 1914

Before you is Gare Montparnasse (The Melancholy of Departure) — a painting by Giorgio de Chirico, from Paris, early nineteen fourteen. It's oil on canvas, about 1.4 by 1.8 meters. Somewhere in there: the bridge, and the clock.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 55 1/8" x 6' 5/8" (140 x 184.5 cm) · Credit Gift of James Thrall Soby

Hanging beside it in Gallery 517: Untitled from Reason of Sleep, Dubo, Dubon, Dubonnet, Paris

More by Giorgio de Chirico here: The Serenity of the Scholar, The Double Dream of Spring