The Double Dream of Spring

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 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.

Similar dummies appear many times in de Chirico's work (cf.

This time the dummy's head looms over the landscape like a hot air balloon.