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René Magritte: Newly Discovered Works: Catalogue Raisonné Volume VI: Oil Paintings, Gouaches, Drawings
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About René Magritte: Newly Discovered Works: Catalogue
Product Description René Magritte (1898–1967) was a surrealist artist whose thought-provoking works used ordinary objects to challenge how viewers perceived reality. His extensive oeuvre was documented in a comprehensive five-volume project, led by distinguished art critic and writer David Sylvester. In the years that followed the publication of the final volume in 1997, numerous works purporting to be by Magritte appeared on the art market. Under the auspices of the Fondation Magritte, a committee was established to verify the authenticity of newly discovered works as well as those previously recorded as "whereabouts unknown" or listed as appendix items in the original volumes of the René Magritte Catalogue Raisonné. René Magritte: Newly Discovered Works includes color illustrations of 130 previously unpublished or unknown works authenticated by the committee between September 2000 and March 2010. Like its predecessors, this volume is the culmination of years of research, which synthesizes new discoveries about the artworks and details of the life of Magritte himself. Accompanying text and comparative documentation provide a wealth of complementary information, including the circumstances of a work's discovery, references to letters, quotations in their original languages, and citations from previous volumes. From Publishers Weekly Representing works authenticated by the Comité Magritte from 2000-2010, this collection comprises oils, gouaches, and drawings that provide a more complete picture of the Surrealist's prodigious output. While there is minimal critical discussion, the works are paired with the history of their ownership, as well as speculation about their origins. Previously unattributed oil paintings such as "La récolte des nuages, dominated by a luminous, twilit sky, rendered in blues and greens, and "L'Embellie," which depicts a door, standing alone, opening out into a seascape, complement Magritte's more canonical work. The master's sly, dark humor is certainly evident in "Par une belle fin d'apres-midi," a 1964 gouache, wherein two coffins sit in lively, lighthearted discussion. Included also is a wider array of less polished works: sketches and drawings that are documents of the creative mind at work or illustrations for various publications or gifts to friends. In his letters, Magritte would often include ballpoint renderings of completed works, as in "Letter with sketch of ÇÿLa durée poignardé,'" in which a train-car emerges from a fireplace above an alternately quotidian and poignant note of 1938 to Marcel Mariën. Returning to the motif that made him iconic, Magritte seems to playfully complicate issues of representation in the self-referential "Les deux mystères," (after the painting of the same name) showing a massive pipe levitating above a framed image of "La trahison des images," which declared, famously, "Ceci n'est pas une pipe". Photos & illus. (Sept.) Review “[A] real treasure trove. . . . [the] large-scale reproductions of gouache paintings . . . are drop-dead gorgeous.”—Janet Tyson, Glasstire.com (Janet Tyson Glasstire.com) About the Author Sarah Whitfield is an independent art historian, writer, and curator.
