A white stallion rears on a beach, the rider caught fatally beneath its hooves. A classic Grecian building perches on the cliffs in the distance, and in the water two toga-clad men watch helplessly from a boat. These elements—the horse, the setting in ancient Greece, the mythological narrative—reappear throughout the 16 paintings by Giorgio de Chirico, an Italian painter who was born in Greece, that make up this exhibition at Vito Schnabel. The artist’s work embodies the retour à l’ordre (return to order) movement of the 1920s, which rejected the popular avant-garde styles of the time in favor of formal traditions of painting. The De Chiricos in this show date from the late 1920s to the 1970s. —Paulina Prosnitz