On March 7, Christie’s will display a painting by surrealist artist Rene Magritte, “The Intimate Friend,” at a price of more than 50 million pounds (63 million US dollars).
The house is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Surrealist Manifesto launched by its founder, the poet André Breton, and the official birth of the movement, by offering for sale a painting by Magritte, which the house described as one of the most sublime and mysterious paintings.
The painting “The Intimate Friend,” painted in 1958, depicts a man with his back turned, staring at the green landscape in front of him, while a baguette and a cup of water float on his back.
The house displays works by many of the most innovative figures in Surrealism; Such as: René Magritte and Francis Picabia, Max Ernst and Salvador Dali, Yves Tanguy and Joan Miro.
Master of puzzles
René Magritte (1898-1967) was a Belgian Surrealist artist known for his depictions of familiar objects in unfamiliar and unexpected contexts, which often raised questions about the nature and limits of art. Reality and representation, as he is famous for his paintings that contain metaphors and is considered a master of puzzles.
Magritte says about his paintings, “Everything in my work comes from a feeling of certainty that we, in fact, belong to a mysterious world.”
Magritte was wearing a black hat that did not leave his face. It appeared in most of his famous paintings, more than 50 times in his works between 1926 and 1966.
Painting of the Son of Man by surrealist artist Rene Magritte (social networking sites)
The hat appears in Magritte’s most famous painting, “The Son of Man”, where a man wearing a Magritte hat appears, and critics believe it is him, with an apple covering his face.
