René MagritteBelgique, 1898–1967The Menaced Assassin
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À propos du tableau
L'Assassin menacé est un tableau peint par René Magritte en 1927. Cette huile sur toile surréaliste représente un homme écoutant de la musique dans une pièce où gît une femme nue décapitée tandis que deux individus armés l'attendent à l'entrée et trois autres le regardent depuis l'extérieur par une fenêtre. Elle est conservée au Museum of Modern Art, à New York.
La structure du tableau reproduit un plan du Fantômas contre Fantômas de Louis Feuillade, dont Magritte était grand amateur.
Notice
- Numéro d’inventaire
- 247.1966
Au catalogue
Sources
- Museum of Modern Art
- Image : Museum of Modern Art — © the artist or rights holder
Pendant ce temps, chez René Magritte
La vie entière1925
A contract with the Brussels gallery Le Centaure
A three-year contract with Galerie Le Centaure freed him from advertising work and let him devote himself entirely to painting.
1927
Meets Breton and joins the Surrealist circle
In Paris he became friends with André Breton and joined his Surrealist circle, where he kept his individuality yet found his recognisable style. He was not afraid to argue with the others: he disliked psychoanalysis, especially in art, regarding his own work as philosophical and poetic rather than psychological.
1927
Moves to Paris after the failed exhibition
Depressed by the failure of the exhibition, he left for Paris with Georgette and stayed there for about three years.
1927
First solo exhibition — and a failure
His first solo exhibition opened in Brussels; the reviews were poor, and Magritte was depressed by the failure.
1929
A contract with the Goemans Gallery in Paris
In 1929 the Goemans Gallery in Paris put Magritte under contract, together with Jean Arp and Yves Tanguy.
15 December 1929
The essay “Words and Images” in the Surrealists’ journal
On 15 December 1929 the last issue, No. 12, of La Révolution surréaliste carried Magritte’s essay “Les mots et les images”, in which words play with images in step with his “The Treachery of Images”.
