René MagritteBelgique, 1898–1967La condition humaine
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La Condition humaine est une peinture à l'huile sur toile du peintre belge surréaliste René Magritte, créée en 1933.
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- Numéro d’inventaire
- 1987.55.1
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Dans la vie de René Magritte
La vie entière1930–1932
No exhibitions, no sales: a stipend from Claude Spaak
Between 1930 and 1932 Magritte had no exhibitions and sold no work; he was supported by a monthly stipend arranged by the Belgian playwright Claude Spaak.
1930s
The patronage of Edward James
The British Surrealist patron Edward James let Magritte stay rent-free in his London home, where he studied architecture and painted; James is depicted in two paintings of 1937, “The Pleasure Principle” and “Not to Be Reproduced”.
1930–1954 · Résidence
René Magritte House
1932
Joins the Communist Party of Belgium
Holding left-wing views, he apparently joined the party twice before the war — in 1932 and 1936 — and left both times over disputes about the role of art in propaganda: party members criticised “The Red Model” for misrepresenting communists and rejected his poster designs for the textile workers’ centre.
1934
Alice Lorge buys “Black Magic”
Suzanne Spaak’s sister Alice Lorge bought “La Magie noire” — the first of a series of eleven paintings showing Georgette Berger in a classical nude pose; Claude Spaak commissioned portraits of his wife and children from Magritte.
1934–1937
Film posters under the pseudonym Emair
From 1934 to 1937 he drew film posters under the pseudonym Emair for the German sound-film distributor Tobis Klangfilm; seven of them are preserved in the Leuven City Archive.
