The Secret Life

1928
(Belgian, 1898–1967)
Unframed: 57.2 x 75.9 x 2.9 cm (22 1/2 x 29 7/8 x 1 1/8 in.)
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This is the first of many paintings Magritte made with the title The Secret Life.

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A preeminent Surrealist active in Brussels and Paris, Magritte used traditional painting techniques to create images of realistically rendered objects juxtaposed illogically - comparable in spirit to poet Isidore Ducasse's definition of beauty as"the chance meeting on a dissection table of a sewing machine and an umbrella." Magritte's visual paradoxes are designed to undermine our complacent belief in a stable, predictable, rational world.
The Secret Life

The Secret Life

1928

René Magritte

(Belgian, 1898–1967)
Belgium, 20th century

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