"Le 16 Septembre"

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(1969)

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"Le 16 Septembre" color etching on Japon nacre, 153x100mm; 6 1/8" x 4"; full margins.  Numbered in pencil, lower left.  Edition size 150. With the stamped signature and the artist's blind stamp, lower right. Printed by Georges Visat, Paris. From "Le Lien de Paille". A very good impression with strong colors [Kaplan/Baum 14].

Rene Magritte (1898-1967) was born in Lessines, Belgium. He studied at the Brussels Academy from 1916 to 1918.  He was influenced by Cubism and Futurism and became a leader of the Belgian Surrealists. Magritte's art is essentially Realist while employing many of the devices of Surrealism in a disquieting and personal manner.  Many of his early works are governed by the incongruous juxtaposition of unrelated objects with a Chirico-like character.  Magritte's work centers on metaphysical puzzles in visual form, rather than Surrealist projections of the unconscious, rendering them within and without Surrealism at the same time.

Magritte's art compels one to consider an underlying poetry of the intellect as well as a poetry of the unconscious. He discouraged any tendency to read his images as symbols; he presented dreamlike images as experiences, not messages. His art evokes extreme or impossible physiological states or events which have an intense affect, but no sensuous correlation, as in dreams where action resides in one's imagination. Magritte produced aberrations in the behavior of objects, provoking a disquieting and impersonal dramatic affect.  He depicts action without distortion with the artist rendering no judgment towards the depicted phenomenon so as to not distract the viewer as to what is meant, leaving the viewer free to concentrate on what is there.

"Le 16 Septembre" is in a black stacked Larson-Juhl "Zen" 26" x 24" frame. The matching wood fillet echoes the frame. The white linen outer and blue/gray suede inner mats are acid and lignin free and are protected with Acrylite-AR OP3 (UV) by CYRO ...   $6500.00