RENE MAGRITTE Original Color Lithograph, edition of 200

This is a magnificent original signed and numbered limited edition color lithograph by internationally acclaimed artist René Magritte (1898-1967).

Rene Magritte was born on November 21, 1898 in the town of Lessines in southern Belgium, near Brussels. He was the oldest of three brothers. He began taking art lessons at the age of twelve. Between 1916 and 1921 he was enrolled at the Academie Royale des Beaux Arts in Brussels, but he attended classes only occasionally. He had some published drawings, some advertising posters, a stint as a designer at a wallpaper factory and another doing freelance publicity work for a fashion house. He had toyed with Dada, Futurism and Cubism; he had designed magazine covers and stage sets and written song lyrics. In 1922 a young friend of Magritte's showed him, in a magazine he brought back from Paris, a smudgy reproduction of a work by the prewar precursor of surrealism, Giorgio de Chirico. On seeing it, Magritte uncharacteristically burst into tears. Although it was a few years before Magritte abandoned his "modern" formula, he recognized the key to his own domain. In the years 1926 through 1930 he painted over two hundred and eighty pictures, some of them very large. Max Ernst was another influence. Magritte and his wife, Georgette Berger, were married for over forty-five years and had no children. They lived in Brussels at the same address from 1930 to 1954; he used to take his little dog for a walk every day. The Magrittes lived for three years in a Paris suburb and Rene was in daily contact with the surrealists. He painted regularly four mornings a week at home in his stuffy little apartment. In the 1950s Magritte executed two fresco cycles: The Enchanted Realm for a casino in Knokke-le-Zut (1953) and The Ignorant Fairy (1957) for the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Charleroi. These monumental compositions repeat the motifs of his previous paintings. In his last year Magritte began to make sculptures of his painted images, developing the theme of correlation of mental and material realities.

This spectacular original color lithograph is entitled “L'Eloge de la Dialectique” and is signed with the artist’s ink-stamped signature on the front lower right. It is also signed in pencil by the artist’s wife “Georgette Magritte” and numbered “108/200” on the lower left. It bears the embossed blindstamp of the publisher, Art 204, 204 bd St-Germain, 75007 Paris, on the front lower right. This limited edition lithograph is from the suite of 10 lithographs entitled "La Philosphie et la peniture de Rene Magritte", which was published by Art 204, Paris, in 1979. It is in excellent condition, measures 20 ¾” x 29” (sheet), 16 ½” x 22 ½” (image) and is unframed. Authenticity is GUARANTEED. Please scroll down on the item description to view additional photographs. Shipping is $20.00 within the US only, international shipping is $46.00. Payment is due within 4 days. Please view my other auctions and eBay store for additional museum quality fine art and collectibles.

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