About this artwork
This gouache is one of a number of works on paper which were given by various surrealist artists to Wolfgang Paalen, so that he could combine them to form four surrealist portfolios. Each comprising fifteen original drawings, they were sold at the 1936 ‘International Surrealist Exhibition’ in London, with the aim to help fund surrealist publications. It relates to his celebrated painting ‘On the Threshold of Liberty’, which shows a room with walls made up of paintings. The recurring motifs of blue sky with clouds, bells suspended on a metal drape and hexagonal drums are explored throughout Magritte’s oeuvre.
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artist:René Magritte (1898 - 1967) Belgian
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title:Untitled
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date created:About 1935/6
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materials:Gouache on paper
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measurements:26.60 x 20.60 cm
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credit line:Purchased with the support of The National Lottery Heritage Fund and Art Fund, 1995
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accession number:GMA 3904
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René Magritte
René Magritte
Magritte was born in Belgium and, apart from a few years spent in Paris in the late 1920s, lived there all his life. Unlike many Surrealists, he did not subscribe to the view that the unconscious could be expressed through chance or 'automatic' techniques. Instead, he planned and executed his...