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The Eternally Obvious  1948

by René Magritte

This work is a variant of a prototype made nearly twenty years earlier, now in the Menil Collection, Houston. Both were created in the same manner: Magritte first painted a nude portrait of his wife, which he then cut into segments, framed, and (in some cases) reassembled onto glass. These works exist between painting and sculpture, and the artist referred to them as both ...
Size: 
78 x 24 x 1 3/8 in. (198.1 x 61 x 3.5 cm)
Medium: 
Oil on canvas mounted on board
Credit: 
Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art