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The False Mirror is a surrealist oil on canvas painting by René Magritte, from 1928. It depicts a human eye framing a cloudy, blue sky. [1] [2] [3] In the depiction of the eye in the painting, the clouds take the place normally occupied by the iris. [4] [5] [6] The painting's original French title is Le faux miroir. [7]
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]
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... (Magritte) The Elephant Celebes; The Empty Mask; The Eye of Silence; F. The Face of War; The False Mirror;
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 Apparition [38] 1928 Staatsgalerie Stuttgart ...
Not to Be Reproduced (La reproduction interdite, 1937) is a painting by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte. It is currently owned by the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. [1] This painting was commissioned by poet and Magritte patron Edward James and is considered a portrait of James although James's face is not depicted.
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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.
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.