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Comparisons with Salvador Dalí's gouache Night and Day Clothes (1936) and Max Ernst's Day and Night (1941–42) in the Menil Collection are also intriguing. [3] An early example of Magritte playing with the idea of the simultaneous appearance of night and day is a gouache painted in 1939 that is now in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen ...
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The Meaning of Night is a painting by the Belgian Surrealist René Magritte. Painted in 1927, it is an oil painting on canvas with dimensions 139 cm by 105 cm and is in the Menil Collection , Houston .
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
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In those pictures, Magritte reintroduced the theme of the nude which he had explored in his earlier painting, Black Magic, but added this curtain element, playing with the various implied textures of the elements depicted. Magritte appears to have used the curtain device again and again after introducing it in The Palace of Memories. In it, he ...
The Alarm Clock (Le Réveil-matin or Le Revéille-matin) is an oil-on-canvas painting [1] by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte, completed in 1957. It is held at a private collection. It depicts a painting inside the painting, depicting a bowl with several apples, upside down, on a table. A landscape appears as a background.