René Magritte (1898-1967), after - The Lovers

René Magritte - The Minnaars - Offset printing/poster print - 70 x 50 cm

Name: René Magritte
Title: The Minnaars
Type: Original art poster - High-quality offset printing/poster print based on the original work from 1928
Publisher: KMSKB - Magritte Foundation - Standaard Uitgeverij
Style: Modern - Surrealism

Characteristics:
- Perfect condition: A+
- 70 x 50 cm
- Signed in print
- Based on the original work by Magritte from 1928

EXTRA INFO ABOUT THE ARTIST:
René François Ghislain Magritte (Lessines, November 21, 1898 – Schaerbeek, August 15, 1967) was a Belgian surrealist painter.

Magritte initially worked as a designer at a wallpaper factory and later also produced many posters.

Magritte’s first foray into painting was cubist, futuristic, and abstract, influenced by his boss Victor Servranckx at the wallpaper factory UPL (Les Usines Peters-Lacroix, in Machelen). After encountering Giorgio de Chirico’s work in 1925, Magritte began to assimilate surrealist elements. De Chirico depicted objects in an extremely realistic manner, but in totally different causal and temporal contexts. Thus De Chirico emphasizes the mystery of the world of objects. He also ironizes the conventional order and placement of things in this way.

Magritte mainly made paintings (oil on canvas), but also gouaches, objects, and collages.

Under the leadership of E.L.T. Mesens he contributed to the magazine Oesophage and in 1927 had his first solo exhibition at the gallery "Le Centaure" in Brussels.

Between 1927 and 1930 Magritte lived in a suburb of Paris, where his surrealist vision was crowned by the friendship of Paul Éluard and André Breton, who had written The Surrealist Manifesto in 1924. When Breton insisted that Magritte’s wife remove a cross pendant, Magritte decided to return to Brussels.[1]

When in 1930 the "Galerie Le Centaure", where Magritte was under contract, went bankrupt, E.L.T. Mesens could purchase all of his works, at that time about 200.

In 1934 Magritte and his entourage also applied the technique of the cadavre exquis to images, following language experiments in which a poem is written by several poets.

Between 1934 and 1937 Magritte signed film posters for the German sound film distributor Tobis Klangfilm under the pseudonym 'Emair'. The City Archive of Leuven preserves seven posters designed by Magritte.

During World War II Magritte worked and resided in the French town of Carcassonne. He forged art to support himself, mainly works by De Chirico, Picasso, and Braque.[1] During a short period, between 1940 and 1946, Magritte slightly enriched his palette with an impressionist accent (the so-called 'Renoir period') on the advice of his agent. This style tended to sell better.

In 1945, after returning to Belgium, he joined the Communist Party of Belgium. In 1948 he briefly painted in a comic-like style, but also unsuccessfully.[1] But after a short time Magritte returned to his earlier, almost photorealistic style, albeit more aggressively due to the increasingly tense relations with his former surrealist circle (Goemans, Scutenaire, Nougé, Lecomte, Souris, E.L.T. Mesens). Magritte’s black humor often led him to a morbid figuration, further surrealized by the sometimes impossibly unlikely names he assigned to his works.

In 1953 Magritte created the wall paintings in the Casino in Knokke on the Belgian coast, commission of the Nellens family. These are now protected by the Royal Commission for Monuments and Landscapes. In 1960 he was awarded the Belgian State Prize for all his work. It was the first time a painter received the State Prize.

In the 1950s Magritte’s work was very popular with New York collectors. This explains the large presence of Magritte’s works in American collections today. His best-known icon The Treachery of Images also resides there.

Magritte died in 1967 in Schaerbeek as a result of pancreatic cancer, where he is also buried in the municipal cemetery.

Most of Magritte’s oeuvre, in terms of style, belongs to surrealism, one of the major art movements of the 20th century. In many of his works nude women and realistically painted fish appear. This is likely a reference to the fact that Magritte found his mother naked in the Sambre after she had committed suicide.

Magritte’s work, like that of Salvador Dalí and Carel Willink, is painted with extraordinary finesse, which emphasizes the realistic effect of otherwise non-existent representations.

The most famous of Magritte’s works is undoubtedly La Trahison des Images (1928-29) or "The Treason of Images" with the painted caption Ceci n’est pas une pipe under a highly realistic image of a pipe. In this work Magritte paints a pipe with the message beneath: "This is not a pipe" (Ceci n’est pas une pipe). He wants to remind himself and the viewer that this is a painting, i.e., a canvas painted with oil, and not a real pipe. Any reference to a real pipe betrays the fact that a pipe is essentially an idea and thus originates in the mind.

By continually questioning ourselves and, as it were, misleading ourselves, Magritte forces us to think about art. In that light, the titles of Magritte’s works can be seen. These titles usually have nothing to do with the subject of the painting. Later conceptual artists extended this line to an extreme with an installation, a performance, or a happening, reducing the artwork to an idea. This is also a critique of artists who believe they must portray reality so truthfully, as the hyperrealists later did. René Magritte held that it is the painter’s task to place reality in another frame. His art always raises more questions than it answers. This is evident in the painting of a mermaid depicted with a fish head and human legs. A characteristic example is the painting of a very realistically depicted fish that, at the tail end, transforms into a burning cigarette with curling smoke (painting "l’Exception" 1963). Magritte’s work also demonstrates an extremely high mastery of the technique of painting with oil on canvas.

Much of Magritte’s work shows metamorphosis, a transformation of one object into another. Or the work is otherwise impossible, such as the series of houses at night with a clear daytime sky above, or a moon hanging in front of a tree’s leaves, owls or other birds emerging from the ground like plants.

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