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What is the difference between Dalí and Magritte?
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The difference between Dalí and Magritte in terms of the artists’ work comes down to subject matter and style. Salvador Dalí used hyperrealism in painting Surrealist symbols and concepts that subverted accepted notions of reality and often featured in complex, highly detailed landscapes. On the other hand, René Magritte was less concerned with realism and symbolism. Instead, he challenged the notions of reality through mysterious disembodied figures and objects. He was also fond of repeating the same motifs and even painted multiple versions of single works, while Dalí did not. Shop a range of Salvador Dalí and René Magritte art on 1stDibs.
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La Grande Guerre - 20th Century, Surrealist, Lithograph, Figurative Print
By René Magritte
Located in Sint-Truiden, BE
Color lithograph after the 1954 oil on canvas by René Magritte, plate-signed by Magritte and numbered from the edition of 300.
The lithograph features the dry stamps of the Magritte...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Circa 1960 Original poster of René Magritte entitled Les Fleurs du Mal
By René Magritte
Located in PARIS, FR
Very nice poster of René Magritte entitled Les Fleurs du Mal published by the collection of the Jardin de l'Infante. René François Ghislain Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist, ...
Category
1960s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
Indiscrete Jewels (Les Bijoux Indiscrets) - Original lithograph [Catalog #3]
By René Magritte
Located in Paris, IDF
René MAGRITTE
Les bijoux indiscrets (Indiscrete jewels), 1975
Original lithograph (Printed in Mourlot Workshop)
Printed signature in the plate
Unnumbered as usual (limited edition o...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"La Reconnaissance Infinie (The Infinite Recognition)" Litho after Rene Magritte
By René Magritte
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"La Reconnaissance Infinie (The Infinite Recognition)" is a color lithograph after the 1963 painting by Rene Magritte. Two of Magritte's bourgeois "littl...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"La Page Blanche (The White Page)" lithograph after painting by Rene Magritte
By René Magritte
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"La Page Blanche," or in English "The White Page," is an original color lithograph executed after the original painting from 1967 by the Belgian Surrealist...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Magritte's original poster for the 1965 Salon de Mai - Musée d'art Moderne Paris
By René Magritte
Located in PARIS, FR
Magritte's original poster for the 1965 Salon de Mai is an iconic piece of art that reflects the ingenuity and surrealist aesthetic of renowned Belgian artist René Magritte. Created ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Lithograph