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National Gallery of Australia Oil on canvas 54 x 73 cm Obsession [29] 1928 Nationalgalerie (Germany) Oil on canvas 81 x 116 cm La Voix des airs [30] 1928 Buffalo AKG Art Museum; Albert H. Tracy Fund. by exchange. and George B. and Jenny R. Mathews Fund. 1976 Oil on canvas overall: 83.82 x 68.58 x 7.62 cm The Voice of Silence (La voix du silence ...
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 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 ...
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.
The Human Condition (La condition humaine) is the title of four paintings by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte.One was completed in 1933 and is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. [1] Another one was completed in 1935 and is part of the Simon Spierer Collection in Geneva, Switzerland. [2]
In 1920 Magritte was introduced to Edouard Léon Théodore Mesens by their mutual acquaintance Karel Maes at the first exhibition of the artist’s Cubo-Futurist work organised by the Centre d’Art in Brussels. Mesens was a man of numerous talents and occupations – a musician, poet, critic and gallerist – who was to become Magritte’s ...
Time Transfixed (La Durée poignardée) is a 1938 oil on canvas painting by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte.It is part of the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago and is usually on display in the museum's Modern Wing. [1]
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 ...