René MagritteBelgian, 1898–1967The Promenades of Euclid
May one see it?
Yes, receiving visitors
Minneapolis Institute of Art
RoomG377Minneapolis, United States
On public display.
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- In this state since
- Sep 25, 2026
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- The museum's own collection data
About the painting
Surrealism was an art of fantasy, dream, and the unconscious, delving into the recesses of the human psyche to discover mysterious, bizarre, and often disturbing images. René Magritte, however, was a Surrealist painter more fascinated by puzzles and paradoxes than by the nature of the unconscious. The Promenades of Euclid presents the age-old problem of illusion versus reality. In this witty picture within a picture, the canvas in front of the window seems to exactly replicate the section of city it blocks from view. But does it? Could the twin forms of tower and street exist only in the artist's imagination? Or do we view the actual city through a transparent canvas?
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Particulars
- Accession number
- 68.3
In the catalog
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- Minneapolis Institute of Art: the museum's own open data · fetched 4 days ago
- Image: Minneapolis Institute of Art — © C. Herscovici / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Meanwhile, in the life of René Magritte
The whole life1930–1954 · Residence
René Magritte House
1954
Exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York
At the 1954 exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York many young artists, among them Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, saw Magritte’s work for the first time; Rauschenberg and Johns later bought his paintings.
from 1956
Begins making short Surrealist films
From 1956 he made short Surrealist films; he had been experimenting with photography since 1920.
