Rene Magritte, Brussels, 1944
About this artwork
Following time spent on the front-line, Miller stayed on in Europe to document the events after the War. Her accounts were published in British and American Vogue. In November 1944 she spent several days in Brussels where she noted that she found her “favourite modern Belgian painters in good health”. Miller was the first to report on René Magritte’s change in style which occurred in 1943: “he paints now like a streaky Renoir and has a passion for varicoloured naked ladies and mystic bouquets”. This dramatically lit photograph of the painter exhibits Miller’s characteristic use of structures to isolate and frame her subject. Magritte’s face is highlighted against the dark, neutral surface of his coat, which hangs behind him.
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title:Rene Magritte, Brussels, 1944
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accession number:GMA 4986
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materials:Black and white photograph (posthumous print)
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date created:1944
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measurements:Paper size: 38.90 x 29.90 cm; image size: 26.20 x 25.20 cm
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credit line:Purchased with help from the Patrons of the National Galleries of Scotland 2007
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copyright:© Lee Miller Archives, England 2016. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk
Lee Miller
Lee Miller
Miller had a most remarkable career and life. She was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, and worked as a model for Condé Nast, learning photography first through being a subject for the most important fashion photographers of her day. In 1929 she visited Paris for the second time and became…