René Magritte - Suite of 20 lithographs - Portfolio IV
Portfolio of 20 lithographs
containing the following lithographs:
The Empire of Lights, The Treachery of Images, The Entrance to the Stage, Golconda, Black Magic, The Battle of the Argonne, This is not an apple, The Sixteenth of September, Infinite
Recognition,
Victory, The Great War, The Ready-Made Bouquet, Decalcomania, Travel Souvenir, Scheherazade, Le Blanc-Seing, Le Beau Monde, A Bit of the Soul of Bandits, The Art of Conversation, Travel
Souvenir.
The lithographs were produced using the traditional lithographic technique, namely, one drawing per color, one color per press pass, in the studio of Philippe Moreno, publisher and art printer,
with the authorization and under the control of ADAGP, representing the MAGRITTE Estate.
They were printed in Paris in 2010, on pure 100% cotton rag paper, BFK Rives, 300 g/m², made in the Arches paper mill, in the Vosges.
Exclusive and limited edition of 275 numbered copies, to which are added 45 hors commerce proofs, marked HC and numbered from 1 to 45, including 15 reserved for the MAGRITTE Succession.
Each lithograph is signed in the plate by MAGRITTE and includes in the margin, the blind stamps of ADAGP, of the MAGRITTE Succession, as well as the initials of its sole representative, Mr.
Charly
Herscovici, also President of the MAGRITTE Foundation and Chairman of the MAGRITE Museum in Brussels.
The portfolio comes with a certificate of authenticity.
Note that the lithographs do not necessarily have the same numbering.
Dimensions :
- Height : 60 cm
- Width : 45 cm
René Magritte :
(1898-1967) was a belgian painter, born in Lessines, Belgium, in 1898. He attended his first painting courses in Châtelet. His first paintings were impressionnist and date back from 1915. From 1916 until 1918, René Magritte entered the Académie royale des beaux-arts de Bruxelles. While working in the studio of Flouquet, with whom he collaborated on the magazine "Au volant", that he discoverd Cubism and Futurism. In 1920, his work was for the first time exhibited, at the Centre d'art de Bruxelles. The following year, he was hired as a draughtsman in a paper factory.
In 1924, he rubbed shoulders with the Dada movement, and was deeply moved by De Chirico's paintings. He then gathered with artists such as Nougé, Goemans, André Souris or Lecomte, and started to shape belgin surrealism. His first surrealist canvas, "The lost Jockey" dates from 1926. His first big surrealist exhibition was organised in 1928, at the galerie L'époque. Magritte exhibited in New York or in London, and made the cover of a book by André Breton. From 1943 to 1945, he used the impressionnist techniques in his paintings, and coined this period, his "Renoir period". During the 1950's and 1960's, he was commissionned to make works for several public institutions and private buildings. Ill with cancer, René Magritte, died in 1967, in Brussels.
