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René Magritte

1898–1967 · Belgium · Surrealism

René François Ghislain Magritte (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. Wikipedia

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Ordinary objects in impossible situations, painted flatly and clearly: bowler hats, apples hiding faces, day skies over night streets.

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Works

• “The Son of Man”, 1964
• “The Treachery of Images”, 1929 — Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• “Golconda”, 1953 — Menil Collection
• “The Empire of Lights”, 1939 — Peggy Guggenheim Collection
• “Not to be Reproduced”, 1937 — Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
• “The False Mirrore”, 1929 — Museum of Modern Art
• “The lovers”, 1930 — Museum of Modern Art
• “Time Transfixed”, 1938 — Art Institute of Chicago
• “Perspective: Madame Récamier de David”, 1951 — National Gallery of Canada
• “The Menaced Assassin”, 1927 — Museum of Modern Art
• “The Human Condition”, 1933
• “The Portrait”, 1935 — Museum of Modern Art
• “The Sixteenth of September”, 1956 — Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
• “The Castle of the Pyrenees”, 1959 — Israel Museum
• “The Listening Room”, 1952 — Menil Collection
• “Voice of Space”, 1931 — Peggy Guggenheim Collection
• “On the Threshold of Liberty”, 1937 — Art Institute of Chicago
• “Elective Affinities”, 1933
• “The Empty Mask”, 1928 — National Museum Cardiff
• “The Meaning of Night”, 1927 — Menil Collection
• “The Seducer”, 1953 — Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
• “The Secret Player”, 1927 — Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
• “The Difficult Crossing”, 1926
• “The key to the fields”, 1936 — Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
• “The Blank Signature”, 1965
• “Black Magic”, 1945
• “Attempting the Impossible”, 1928
• “Collective Invention”, 1934
• “Les barricades mystérieuses”, 1961
• “Beautiful world”, 1962
• “Manet's Balcony”, 1950
• “Invisible world”, 1954
• “The Rights of Man”, 1947
• “The red model”, 1934
• “The beneficial promise”, 1927
• “Rape”, 1935
• “Philosophy in the bedroom”, 1947
• “The domain of Arnheim”, 1938
• “Every day”, 1966
• “Banquet”, 1955

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