The Great Tower

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The Great Tower
Italian: La grande torre
File:Giorgio de Chirico - The Great Tower.jpg
Artist Giorgio de Chirico
Year1921 (1921)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions83.5 cm× 62 cm(32.9 in× 24 in)
Location Pushkin Museum, Moscow

The Great Tower (Italian: La grande torre) is a 1921 painting by the Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico, now in the Pushkin Museum. The Russian Ministry of Culture acquired it in 1992 for the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, though the latter then transferred it to the Pushkin Museum in honour of the latter's eightieth anniversary. [1]

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The Great Tower on Pushkin Museum