The Treachery of Images
| The Treachery of Images | |
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| Artist | René Magritte |
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| Type | Oil on canvas |
| Location | Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California[1] |
The Treachery of Images (La trahison des images, 1928–29, sometimes translated as The Treason of Images) is a painting by the Belgian René Magritte, painted when Magritte was 30 years old. The picture shows a pipe. Below it, Magritte painted, "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" (ⓘ), French for "This is not a pipe." The painting is not a pipe, but rather an image of a pipe, which was Magritte's point:
The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture "This is a pipe," I'd have been lying![2]
The theme of pipes with the text "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" is extended in his 1966 painting, Les Deux Mystères.[3]
See also
References
- ^ La Trahison des images (Ceci n'est pas une pipe), 1929, Painting, Oil on canvas. Purchased with funds provided by the Mr. and Mrs. William Preston Harrison Collection (78.7). On public view: Ahmanson Building 2nd Floor.
- ^ Torczyner, Harry. Magritte: Ideas and Images. p. 71.
- ^ "Olga's Gallery". Retrieved 3 October 2010.
Further reading
- Allmer, Patricia. René Magritte: Beyond Painting, Manchester University Press, 2009. ISBN 0-7190-7928-4.
External links
Wikiversity has learning resources about 1929/Margritte#Parody
- This could be a pipe: Foucault, irrealism and Ceci n'est pas une pipe essay in irreal (re)views