Décalcomanie (Decalcomania)

This lithograph was printed and published in 2010 in our Art-Lithographies studio in Paris using 100% cotton 300 g/m² BFK Rives paper. Artwork entirely made in France: from the production of the paper in Arches in the Vosges department, to the traditional lithographic printing process, one drawing for each different color, one color per press run.

The lithograph was authorized, supervised and validated by the ADAGP (Society of Authors in the Graphic and Plastic Arts) and by Mr. Charly Herscovici, President of the Magritte Foundation, Chairman of the Magritte Museum and unique representative of the Magritte Succession.

Painted by René Magritte in 1966.

Has the silhouette on the right been cut out from the curtain, which now reveals the land, water and clouds it was hiding ? Or is the figure on the left just another cutout from the spot in which the figure on the right now appears ? What if the sky and curtain form a single backdrop, therefore explaining the piece of curtains in the right side of the silhouette on the right ?

If we decide to go with one of those explanations, we would have to immediately discard all of the others, all of which would be equally valid. Everything on this painting represents a subject existing in our reality, there's nothing surreal in this. But grasping what might be happening in the picture, that is impossible......