ARTISTS
les Menottes de Cuivre
Technique : Edition : /150 + 20EA Dimensions : height: 41 1/3 " (105 cm)
Born in 1898, Lessiness, Belgium. Died in 1967, Brussels, Belgium.
EN The Belgian painter was born in Lessiness, a small town in the province of Hainaut, on November 21, 1898. His family moved to Châtelet south of Brussels in 1910. Magritte studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels from 1916 to 1918, where he became fellow student of the painter Viktor Servranckx. Together they wrote the text "L'art pure: défense de l'esthétique" (The pure art: advocating the esthetic), that remained unpublished. In 1922 he was employed as a drawer by a factory that made wallpapers and also earned a living by making advertisements for fashion shops. René Magritte's early paintings are geared towrads Impressionism and Cubism and later at Futurism. His knowledge of the "Pittura Metafisica" lead to Magritte's own surrealist trials.
René Magritte painted his arguably most famous painting "La trahison des images" (Betrayal of the Images) in 1929, which shows a pipe and the words "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" (This is not a pipe) next to it.
René Magritte died in Brussels on August 15, 1967. FR René Gislain Magritte est né le 21 novembre 1898 à Lessines en Belgique dans une famille modeste. Son enfance sera marquée par le suicide de sa mère.A l'âge de quinze ans, il rencontre Georgette Berger qu'il épousera en 1922 .Pendant toute sa vie , elle demeurera son unique modèle. En 1915 Magritte s'installe à Bruxelles et réalise ses premières oeuvres de factureimpressionniste. Il étudie à l'Académie des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles de 1916 à 1918. Après une première période influencée par le cubisme, il s'oriente vers le surréalisme. Son épouse léguera les oeuvres de son mari à diverses collections publiques Belges.
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