In praise of dialectics
(L'Éloge de la dialectique)
(1937)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 65.5 × 54.0 cm
- Inscription
- inscribed in black paint l.r.: magritte
- Accession Number
- EA2-1971
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1971
© René Magritte/ADAGP, Paris. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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With their strange juxtapositions and memorable images, the paintings of René Magritte are based on the conviction that depictions of mental ideas are as valid as the recording of external events. Few artists have given us so many clear depictions of the life of the inner self. In making the familiar so unfamiliar, Magritte reminds us of life as lived in the mind.
- Subjects (general)
- Architecture Fantasy
- Subjects (specific)
- buildings (structures) exterior houses interior scale (relative size) windows
- Movements
- Surrealism
