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La Lectrice soumise. Oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm. Courtesy Ivor Braka Ltd., London © 2005 ProLitteris, Zürich
The Subjugated Reader, 1928
René Magritte was born in 1898 in Lessines, Belgium.
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He came of a petit bourgeois milieu, behind whose outward respectability he concealed his true personality throughout his life. Correct attire, bowler hat, a small, humble flat with studio in the living room – a jealously guarded facade behind which the existence of skeletons in the closet might be suspected.
It is of such dark lurkings that Magritte’s painted fantasies tell. Precociously gifted, the boy left his parents at an early age for Brussels, where he attended the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, with interruptions, from 1916 to 1921.
Where was rené magritte born
Influenced by Surrealism and inspired especially by Giorgio de Chirico, Magritte began in the middle of the 1920s to develop a personal visual language and his trademark motifs.
Le Jockey perdu.
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