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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 Empty Mask is an oil on canvas painting by Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte, from 1928. The painting was purchased in 1973 and is on display in the National Museum of Wales, in Cardiff. [1] Magritte suggested in his essay Words and Images (1929) concerning this painting that each image represented "suggests that there are others ...
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
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.
The Treachery of Images (French: La Trahison des images) is a 1929 painting by Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. It is also known as This Is Not a Pipe, [2] Ceci n'est pas une pipe [2] and The Wind and the Song. [3] It is on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. [1] The painting shows an image of a pipe.
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 ...
The Difficult Crossing (La traversée difficile) is the name given to two oil-on-canvas paintings by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte.The original version was completed in 1926 during Magritte's early prolific years of surrealism and is currently held in a private collection. [1]
The Voice of Space (La Voix des airs, 1931) is an oil painting by René Magritte. Four oil versions exist of the image. The most famous is that held in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. Another publicly displayed version is held at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. Bells float high in the ...