20 August 2018

René Magritte. The Eternally Obvious: Knees (‘L'évidence éternelle: genoux’), 1954 (private collection).


Oil on canvas: 20.3 x 21 cm(!). Originally conceived as part of a five-piece work that was never completed. Similar finished versions at: The Menil Collection, Houston (1930) and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Pierre and Maria Gaetana Matisse Collection, 1948). Only three of the five projected canvases (the head, breasts and knees) have been traced. Auctioned at Christie’s New York, November 2017. 

More > René Magritte at Wikipedia.