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Blue Monday

Featuring:
Josef Albers' Homage to the Square: Soft Spoken, 1969
& René Magritte's La reproduction interdite, 1937

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2020-11-24

René Magritte

(1898–1967)

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2020-11-22

Today would have been René Magritte's 122nd birthday. Happy birthday Monsieur Magritte!⁠
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Le thérapeute (the therapist) was sold by Christie's for £1,986,500 in February 2015.

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2020-11-22

René Magritte, peintre surréaliste belge, naît le 21 novembre 1898. Il décèdera alors qu'il n'a que 68 ans. C'st en 2009 que sera inauguré à un grand musée entièrement dédié à son œuvre.

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2020-11-22

"The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb."
~ Rene Magritte

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2020-11-21

"The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture “This is a pipe”, I'd have been lying!"
~ Rene Magritte

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2020-11-21

"Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist."
~ Rene Magritte

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2020-11-21

"The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown."
~ Rene Magritte

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2020-11-21

21 November 1898. Artist René Magritte was born in Lessines, Belgium. He became well known for creating a number of witty and thought-provoking images, often depicting everyday objects in an unusual way. His imagery influenced pop art, minimalist art and conceptual art.

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2020-11-21

René Magritte (21 de noviembre 1898 - 15 de agosto 1967)

Les Amants. 1928. Óleo sobre tela, 54x73.4 cm. MoMA
La trahison des images. 1929. Óleo sobre tela, 63x93 cm. LACMA
La reproduction interdite. 1937. Óleo sobre tela, 81.3 cm×65 cm. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

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2020-11-21

"If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream." 🎨 Belgian surrealist artist was born 21 November 1898.

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2020-11-21

René Magritte (b. 21.11.1898)
'The Lovers' (1928)
Oil on canvas
54 x 73 cm

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2020-11-20

"Blow to the Heart", Rene Magritte (1898 – 1957), Belgian

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2020-11-20

René Magritte 'Deux Tourterelles, dans la Chaude Pénombre de Leur Maison...'
1968 litho

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2020-11-14