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The Treachery of Images by René Magritte

The Treachery of Images

René Magritte · 1929

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Artist
René Magritte
Date
1929
Location
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
ART MOVEMENTS
Surrealism
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THE ARTIST

René Magritte

1898–1967 · Belgium

René Magritte was a Belgian surrealist master who painted familiar objects in dreamlike, often unsettling, unexpected contexts.

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The Eye The Eye 1932 · Art Institute of Chicago On the Threshold of Liberty On the Threshold of Liberty 1937 · Art Institute of Chicago La durée poignardée (Time Transfixed) La durée poignardée (Time Transfixed) 1938 · Art Institute of Chicago Untitled (Woman-Bottle) Untitled (Woman-Bottle) 1943 · Art Institute of Chicago The Banquet The Banquet 1958 · Art Institute of Chicago
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The Old Guitarist The Old Guitarist Picasso · 1903 · Art Institute of Chicago Death in the Garden (Legend) Death in the Garden (Legend) Klee · 1919 · Art Institute of Chicago Dada Gauguin Dada Gauguin Ernst · 1920 · Art Institute of Chicago Untitled (Desert Landscape) Untitled (Desert Landscape) Dalí · 1934 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Beyond Magritte and Surrealism: works from the same years.

Lozenge Composition with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Gray Same era · 1910s–1940s Lozenge Composition with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Gray Piet Mondrian · 1921 · Art Institute of Chicago Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida Same era · 1910s–1940s Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida Ivan Puni · 1929 · Art Institute of Chicago American Gothic Same era · 1910s–1940s American Gothic Okada Saburosuke · 1930 · Art Institute of Chicago Straße mit Passanten bei Nachtbeleuchtung Same era · 1910s–1940s Straße mit Passanten bei Nachtbeleuchtung Ernst Ludwig Kirchner · 1927 · Museum Frieder Burda Fleeing Ghost Same era · 1910s–1940s Fleeing Ghost Paul Klee · 1929 · Art Institute of Chicago Abstraction: Background with Blue Cloudy Sky Same era · 1910s–1940s Abstraction: Background with Blue Cloudy Sky Pablo Picasso · 1930 · Art Institute of Chicago American Gothic Same era · 1910s–1940s American Gothic Grant Wood · 1930 · Art Institute of Chicago The Circus Rider Same era · 1910s–1940s The Circus Rider Marc Chagall · 1927 · Art Institute of Chicago
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