Artist: René Magritte (French 1881-1955)
Title: La Geante II by René Magritte
Medium: Original Lithograph, Limited Edition of 150, 1950
Dimensions: 28.25 x 22.25 in, 71.8 x 56.5 cm

The illustrative quality of Magritte's pictures often results in a powerful paradox: images that are beautiful in their clarity and simplicity but also provoke unsettling thoughts. Magritte was fascinated by the interactions of textual and visual signs, and some of his most famous pictures employ both words and images.

Rene Magritte is the most celebrated Belgian artist of the twentieth century and birds were a recurring motif in his work. The artist preferred the quiet anonymity of a middle-class existence, a life symbolized by the bowler-hatted men that often populate his pictures - such as "Son of Man" which he painted in 1964 as a self-portrait.

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