Rene Magritte Belgian Surrealist Oil on Canvas for Auction at 888 Auctions on June 20, 2019

Rene Magritte Belgian Surrealist Oil on Canvas – June 20, 2019

Oil on canvas painting. Featuring a surrealist scene of a man with bowler hat with beach landscape scene. Signed Magritte on the lower left corner. Attributed to Rene Magritte (1898-1967, Belgian). Gallery stamped illegibly on verso. 30 x 25 cm (11.8 x 9.8 inches). PROVENANCE: Private estate (Toronto, ON)

Rene Magritte Belgian Surrealist Oil on Canvas – Lot # 98 – June 20, 2019

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Rene Magritte

Rene Magritte (1898-1967) was a Belgian artist and one of the most enduringly influential members of the Surrealist movement. Best known for his illusionistic images that challenged the viewer’s preconceptions of reality, Magritte’s Surrealist paintings are clever, witty, and ironic – his most popular being The Treachery of Images (This is Not a Pipe) (1929). “At least it hides the face partly well, so you have the apparent face, the apple, hiding the visible but hidden, the face of the person,” he said of his self-portrait The Son of Man (1964). “It’s something that happens constantly. Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us.”

Born on November 21, 1898 in Lessines, Belgium, the artist went on to study at the Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. His interest in avant-garde art was piqued after seeing a photograph of Giorgio de Chirico’s The Song of Love (1914), de Chirico, along with Max Ernst, served as major influences on the young Magritte.

During the late 1920s, while maintaining an active commercial illustration career in Paris, he became involved with Surrealism, collaborating with Andre Breton, Man Ray, Yves Tanguy, and Paul Eluard. Worldwide interest in his work sparked in the 1960s with numerous museum exhibitions. The artist died during the height of his popularity in Brussels, Belgium on August 15, 1967.

Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Musee Magritte Museum in Brussels, and the Tate Gallery in London.

Auction Overview

Richmond Hill, ON – 432 fresh to market items will be available to the discerning buyers and collectors in 888 Auctions’ June 20th auction featuring the finest in FINE ART, IMPRESSIONIST PAINTINGS & ANTIQUES 2019-06-20. Taking place in the afternoon at 2 PM (EST), bidders will be competing against one another over a variety of items on display.

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Monday, June 17: 10AM-5PM
Tuesday, June 18: 10AM-5PM
Wednesday, June 19: 10AM-5PM
Thursday, June 20: 10:30AM-1PM

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