letmypeopleshow: This may not be a pipe, but it IS a Magritte: Things are seldom what they seem in the work of René Magritte. Since the definitive, five-volume catalogue of paintings by the Belgian Surrealist was published 12 years ago, “Magrittes” have been coming out of the woodwork—so much so that the artist’s foundation convened a new committee to consider them all. To their surprise, many turned out to be real. So they assembled 130 of the new finds in a new book.   With a portrait of Jesus, racy erotic drawings, apples that aren’t apples, and that famous cryptic pipe, these never-before-published works echo the themes that obsessed Magritte throughout his career. And two of them impressed a MoMA curator so much she added them to a major upcoming show. Read more.  René Magritte, The Hesitation Waltz, 1952, gouache on paper. ©2012 Charly Herscovici, Brussels.

letmypeopleshow:

This may not be a pipe, but it IS a Magritte:

Things are seldom what they seem in the work of René Magritte. Since the definitive, five-volume catalogue of paintings by the Belgian Surrealist was published 12 years ago, “Magrittes” have been coming out of the woodwork—so much so that the artist’s foundation convened a new committee to consider them all. To their surprise, many turned out to be real. So they assembled 130 of the new finds in a new book.  

With a portrait of Jesus, racy erotic drawings, apples that aren’t apples, and that famous cryptic pipe, these never-before-published works echo the themes that obsessed Magritte throughout his career. And two of them impressed a MoMA curator so much she added them to a major upcoming show. Read more. 

René Magritte, The Hesitation Waltz, 1952, gouache on paper. ©2012 Charly Herscovici, Brussels.

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