La Peine Perdue, 2010
René Magritte   Best sellers Master Artists

Print : lithography · 60 x 45 x 0.3 cm 23.6 x 17.7 x 0.1 inch

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Print : numbered and limited to 275 copies

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lithography on Arches paper

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The lithograph presents the dry stamps of the Magritte Foundation & ADAGP (Society of Authors in Graphic and Plastic Arts) and is countersigned in pencil by Mr. Charly Herscovici, President of the Magritte Foundation, President of the Magritte Museum and sole representative of the Estate of Magritte. A proof of edition is printed on the back of the lithograph guaranteeing its authenticity. With his highly cerebral surrealist imagery, René Magritte breathed new life into seemingly conventional subjects. He often paints everyday objects out of context, in juxtapositions forcing the viewer to reconsider things normally taken for granted. In his iconic trompe l'oeil work The Treachery of Images (1928–1929), for example, Magritte painted a hyperrealistic pipe and wrote, just below, "this is not a pipe"—a mise-en-scene. caution not to trust our eyes and a reminder that the art object, no matter how convincing, is not the real thing. Magritte's highly figurative style of surrealism is often discussed alongside the work of Salvador Dalí and Giorgio de Chirico, and his persistent interrogation of objects both influenced and paved the way for seminal art movements, from conceptualism to pop art.

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René Magritte, La Peine Perdue
Belgium  • 1898  - 1967
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René François Ghislain Magritte (1898-1967) was a Belgian artist. His childhood was marked by the death of his mother, who killed herself, but also by his meeting of Georgette Berger during his teenage years, whom he later married and who became his only muse.

He moved to Brussels in 1915 and produced his first impressionist paintings. He started his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels and discovered cubism and surrealism. He started working as a designer in a wallpaper factory, and then as a freelance graphic designer. In Brussels, he befriended Belgian surrealists such as Goemans and Nougé.

He moved to Paris in 1927, where he met some of the most prominent writers and artists associated with the surrealist movement: André Breton, Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali, Paul Eluard, Joan Miró... Certain differences of opinion with the surrealist group drove him to return to Belgium, where he became the leader of the movement. His anxiety over the war that he felt was coming reinforced his attachment to the surrealist thinking, but also his political involvement.

René Magritte was interested in the difference between objects and their representation. His body of work explores the mysteries we perceive from various aspects of everyday life, using sometimes language, other times theatrical settings to display bizarre objects. He used familiar objects in his paintings, encouraging us to change our perception of the most common things, by bringing our subjectivity into the equation. 

His dreamlike style earned him worldwide recognition starting in the 1960s. His works have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, and the Centre Georges Pompidou.

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