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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.
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 ...
500 franc note showing portrait of Magritte. The 1960s brought a great increase in public awareness of Magritte's work. [2] Thanks to his "sound knowledge of how to present objects in a manner both suggestive and questioning", his works have been frequently adapted or plagiarized in advertisements, posters, book covers and the like. [48]
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 ...
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 ...
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
Los Angeles County Museum of Art [1], Los Angeles 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 ]
Magritte lived in a similar suburban environment, and dressed in a similar fashion. The bowler hat was a common feature of much of his work, and appears in paintings such as The Son of Man. Charly Herscovici, who was bequeathed copyright on the artist's works, commented on Golconda: Magritte was fascinated by the seductiveness of images.