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René François Ghislain Magritte (French: [ʁəne fʁɑ̃swa ɡilɛ̃ maɡʁit]; 21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist known for his depictions of familiar objects in unfamiliar, unexpected contexts, which often provoked questions about the nature and boundaries of reality and representation. [1]
The Treason of Images (This is not a Pipe) [45] 1929 Oil on canvas 55 x 72 cm Tree of Knowledge [46] 1929 Oil on canvas 41 x 27 cm The Eternally Obvious (L'évidence éternelle) [47] 1930 The Menil Collection Oil on five separately stretched and framed canvases mounted on acrylic sheet 167.6 × 38.1 × 55.9 cm La clef des songes. [48] 1930
René Magritte (born in Lessines, 1898 – died in Brussels, 1967) – Surrealism; Auguste Mambour (born in Liège, 1896 – died in Liège, 1968) – Expressionism, Cubism, African art; Frans Masereel (born in Blankenberge, 1889 – died in Avignon, France, 1972) – painter and woodcutter; Armand Massonet (1892–1979)
René Magritte, originally from the Walloon province of Hainaut, moved to Brussels in 1915 at the age of 17 and lived in seven different apartments until his death in 1967. [3] He only interrupted these Brussels years by staying in the Parisian suburb of Le Perreux-sur-Marne , where he lived from 1927 to 1930.
The Son of Man (French: Le fils de l'homme) is a 1964 painting by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. It is perhaps his best-known artwork. [1] Magritte painted it as a self-portrait. [2] The painting consists of a man in an overcoat and a bowler hat standing in front of a low wall, beyond which are the sea and a cloudy sky. The man ...
Not to Be Reproduced (La reproduction interdite, 1937) is a painting by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte. It is currently owned by the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. [1] This painting was commissioned by poet and Magritte patron Edward James and is considered a portrait of James although James's face is not depicted.
In 1938, she had her first solo art exhibition at the Julian Levy Gallery in New York, famous for showing the work of revolutionary Surrealist artists like Salvador Dalí and Rene Magritte during ...
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