1966／Oil on canvas
41.0 x 33.0 cm
400 Years of Western Paintings – Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum –
Exhibition period：Saturday April 12～Sunday June 8, 2025
Nagoya City Art Museum (Aichi, Japan)
SUMMARY
The figure depicted in this work, in spite of a human being, is pulled away from a human being itself by wearing a characterless ready-made suit and erasing its face. Likewise, from the apple floating in space, its character is also eliminated. The two characterless objects seemingly have no connection with each other and make an encounter that is made possible only in a painting. An “impossible encounter in everyday life,” a typical theme for Surrealists and Magritte, goes through a normal level of awareness and evokes a surreal sense mixed with astonishment.
ARTIST
René Magritte
1898-1967
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