It's a mark of the Surrealist art Hopper saw in New York during the 1930s, by Giorgio de Chirico and others, that the human figures look like things while the inanimate chairs and buildings come to life. Doesn't that pink chair look unsettlingly like a huge hand, a jutting thumb and curled fingers, ready to clutch the unsuspecting man from behind and give him a shake? Is this the woman's fantasy? When André Breton, a French Surrealist in exile in New York, first saw Hopper's pictures, he recognized a kindred spirit, someone who, like the Surrealists, was painting an unnerving synthesis of reality and dream.