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Painted by René Magritte in 1964. In 1912, Régina Magritte committed suicide by drowning herself. The image of Magritte’s mother floating, her dress hiding her face is a recurrent motif in Magritte’s work. The flowers obscuring the woman’s face may exhibits the terrifying time he went through. Why this particular flower ?
Summary of René Magritte. Surely the most celebrated Belgian artist of the 20 th century, René Magritte has achieved great popular acclaim for his idiosyncratic approach to Surrealism. To support himself he spent many years working as a commercial artist, producing advertising and book designs, and this most likely shaped his fine art, which ...
This painting has many elements in common with another one of Magritte's paintings, The Great War on Facades, which instead depicts a woman in a similar situation near a wall by the sea, with a flower hovering over her face.
La grande guerre (The Great War), 1964, Series 1. Medium: Color Lithograph. Image Size: 27 in x 19 5/8 in (68.6 cm x 49.8 cm) Sheet Size: 30 5/8 in x 22 7/8 in (77.8 cm x 58.1 cm) Framed Size: approx. 45 in x 37 in (114.3 cm x 94 cm)
Rene Magritte La grande Guerre - une des nombreuses œuvres de l'artiste. Informations détaillées et descriptif de l'œuvre à lire sur Artchive.
3. It appears to be the man pendant of Magritte’s painting The Great War on Façades that represent a woman with her face covered with flower instead of an apple. Both characters from The Son of Man and The Great War on Façades are standing in front of the same landscape, thus making of both painting a couple.
Magritte painted The Son of Man as a self-portrait. The painting consists of a man in an overcoat and a bowler hat standing in front of a short wall, beyond which is the sea and a cloudy sky. The man's face is largely obscured by a hovering green apple. However, the man's eyes can be seen peeking over the edge of the apple.
