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The Empire of Light II (1950), oil on canvas, 79 x 99 cm. Museum of Modern Art, New York. Although Magritte had already completed a few versions by 1953, a retrospective at the 1954 Venice Biennale included a 1954 version (now in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection) that attracted several collectors with expectations of buying the painting.
According to the 1998 documentary The Fear of God: 25 Years of "The Exorcist", the iconic poster shot for the film The Exorcist was inspired by Magritte's The Empire of Light. In the 1992 movie Toys, Magritte's work was influential in the entire movie but specifically in a break-in scene, featuring Robin Williams and Joan Cusack in a music ...
A René Magritte painting depicting an eerily lit streetscape has smashed the auction record for the Surrealist artist’s work. René Magritte’s ‘L’empire des lumières’ sells for record ...
Poe was one of Magritte's favorite authors and he made other references to the author in his work. For example, the title of the 1938 painting The Domain of Arnheim was taken from the 1847 Poe short story of the same name. [5] Magritte painted another portrait of Edward James titled The Pleasure Principle (1937). It depicts James from the front ...
René Magritte's painting "Empire of Light" is seen during an auction preview show at Christie's in New York on November 13. - Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times/Redux
Magic Light [33] 1928 Oil on canvas 54 x 73 cm The False Mirror [34] 1928 The Museum of Modern Art; Purchase Oil on canvas 54 x 80.9 cm Six Elements [35] 1928 Philadelphia Museum of Art Oil on canvas 73 x 100 cm Attempting the Impossible [36] 1928 Oil on canvas 116 x 81 cm Lost World [37] 1928 Kunstmuseum Winterthur Oil on canvas 54.5 x 73.5 cm
In his 1950 painting The Empire of Light, René Magritte (1898–1967), [66] explores the illusion of night and day, and the paradox of time and light. On the top half of his canvas Magritte paints a clear blue sky and white clouds that radiate bright daytime; while on the bottom half of his canvas below the sky, he paints a street, sidewalk ...
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