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The Portrait is an oil on canvas painting by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte, from 1935. It depicts an almost photo-realistic table setting with a slice of ham in the center, with an eye staring back at the viewer from the center of the ham. This painting was once part of the private collection of the surrealist painter Kay Sage.
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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 ...
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]
Self-portrait: 1923 oil on canvas Night Life: 1923 oil on canvas 50.1 x 40.2 cm Three Nudes in an Interior: 1923 oil on canvas 59.5 x 55.5 cm Youth: 1924 oil on canvas 50.5 x 41 cm Advertisements for "Norine" 1925 gouache on paper The Bather: 1925 Palais des Beaux-Arts de Charleroi, Charleroi oil on canvas 50 x 100 cm Blue Cinema: 1925 Private ...
The Portrait may refer to: The Portrait, a 1935 painting by René Magritte "The Portrait" (short story), an 1835 short story by Nikolai Gogol The Portrait, a 1983 opera composed by Mieczysław Weinberg based on the short story "The Portrait" (song), a song by The Damned on their 1986 album Anything; The Portrait
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 work depicts a large room with the walls paneled with different scenes or windows. Each panel reveals a different subject: a sky, fire, wood, a forest, the front of a building, an ornamental pattern, a female torso and a strange metallic texture featuring spherical bells (a common Magritte element). Inside the room is a cannon.