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All auctions / Arts & Graphics / René Magritte (1898-1967), after - The Castle in the Pyrenees
René Magritte - The Castle in the Pyrenees / The Spanish Air Castle (after) - Offset printing/poster print - 70 x 50 cm Name: René Magritte Title: The Castle in the Pyrenees / The Spanish Air Castle Type: Original art poster - High-quality offset print/poster print after the original work from 1959 Publisher: KMSKB - Magritte Foundation - Standaard Uitgeverij Style: Modern - Surrealism Characteristics: - Perfect condition: A+ - 70 x 50 cm - Signed in print - After the original work by Magritte from 1959 EXTRA ARTIST INFO: René François Ghislain Magritte (Lessen, 21 November 1898 – Schaerbeek, 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist painter. Magritte initially worked as a designer at a wallpaper factory and later also created many posters. Magritte's debut in painting was in a cubist, futurist, and abstract manner, under the influence of his boss Victor Servranckx at the wallpaper factory UPL (Les Usines Peters-Lacroix, in Machelen). After being introduced to Giorgio de Chirico's work, in 1925, Magritte began to assimilate surrealist elements in his work. De Chirico depicts objects with very realistic detail but in completely different causal and temporal contexts. In this way, De Chirico emphasizes the mystery of the world of objects. The conventional order and placement of things are likewise ironized. 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 he had his first solo exhibition at the gallery Le Centaure in Brussels. Between 1927 and 1930 Magritte stayed 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 once insisted that Magritte's wife remove a necklace with a cross, he decided to return to Brussels.[1] When in 1930 the Le Centaure Gallery, where Magritte was under contract, went bankrupt, E.L.T. Mesens was able to buy up all his works, at that time about 200. In 1934 Magritte and his entourage also applied the technique of the cadavre exquis with images following the language experiments in which a poem is written by multiple 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 stayed in the French town of Carcassonne. He forged art to support himself financially. It mainly involved works by De Chirico, Picasso, and Braque.[1] For a short period, between 1940 and 1946, Magritte slightly enriched his palette with an impressionistic touch (the so-called 'Renoir period') on the advice of his agent. This style would sell better. In 1945, after his return to Belgium, he joined the Communist Party of Belgium. In 1948 he briefly painted in a cartoonish style, but also unsuccessfully.[1] But soon Magritte returned to his earlier, nearly photorealistic style, somewhat more aggressive, due to the increasingly turbulent relationship 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 gave his works. In 1953 Magritte created the wall paintings in the casino at Knokke on the Belgian coast, commissioned by 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 the State Prize was awarded to a painter. In the 1950s Magritte's work was very popular with New York collectors. This explains the large presence today of Magritte's work in American collections. His best-known icon La Trahison des Images is also there. Magritte died in 1967 in Schaerbeek from pancreatic cancer, where he is also buried in the municipal cemetery. The majority of Magritte's oeuvre, in terms of style, belongs to surrealism, one of the important art movements of the 20th century. In many of his works there are nude women and accurately painted fish. This is probably a reference to the fact that Magritte found his mother naked next to the Sambre after she committed suicide. Magritte's work, like that of Salvador Dalí and Carel Willink, is very finely painted, which emphasizes the realistic effect of apparently non-existent representations in reality. The best-known work by Magritte is undoubtedly La Trahison des Images (1928-29) or 'The Treachery of Images' with the painted text: Ceci n'est pas une pipe under the highly realistic image of a pipe. In this work, René 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 canvas painted with oil paint, i.e., a painting, and not a real pipe. Any reference to a real pipe breaches the fact that a pipe is essentially an idea and thus originates in the mind. By constantly questioning ourselves and almost deceiving it, Magritte forces us to think about art. In that light, the titles of Magritte's works can also be seen. These titles usually have nothing to do with the subject of the painting. Later conceptual artists took this line very far with an installation, a performance, or a happening and reduced the artwork to an idea. This is also a critique of artists who believe they must depict reality as faithfully as possible, like the hyperrealists later. René Magritte believed that it is the task of the painter to place reality in another frame. His art always raises more questions than it can answer. Witness the painting of a mermaid, depicted with a fish head and human legs. A sketch is also the painting of a very realistically depicted fish that at the tail end turns into a burning cigar with curling smoke (painting "l'Exception" 1963). Magritte's work also shows an extraordinary 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, for example the series of houses at night, with a clear sky above in daylight. Or a moon that hangs in front of the leaves of a tree. Owls or other birds emerging from the ground like plants. He is related to the following artists: Morris Louis Yves Klein Lucio Fontana Piet Mondrian Niki de Saint Phalle Otto Piene Heinz Mack Kazimir Malevich Jean Tinguely Rainer Maria Latzke Jef Verheyen Pol Bury Walter Leblanc Rene Magritte André Racz Pierre Alechinsky Victor Vasarely Georges Vantongerloo Yves Klein Otto Piene Heinz Mack Lucio Fontana Piero Manzoni Jesús Rafael Soto Victor Vasarely Karl Otto Götz Gerhard Richter Anselm Kiefer Georg Baselitz Jannis Kounellis Cy Twombly Antoni Tàpies Hans Hartung Pierre Soulages Mark Rothko Kazuo Shiraga Bridget Riley Agostino Bonalumi Jean Tinguely Niki de Saint Phalle Guy Vandenbranden Marcel Duchamp Joseph Beuys Jean Tinguely Alexander Calder Nam June Paik Claes Oldenburg Chris Burden Richard Buckminster Fuller Karel Appel Asger Jorn Constant Nieuwenhuys Corneille Jean Dubuffet Jackson Pollock Willem de Kooning Hans Hartung Joan Miró Antoni Tàpies Sam Francis Franz Kline Mark Tobey André Masson Lucio Fontana Eduardo Chillida Kazuo Shiraga Zao Wou-Ki
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