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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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Le Séducteur (The Tempter)
By René Magritte
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Framed 34.25 x 38.50 in
Color lithograph after the 1951 oil on canvas by René Magritte, plate-signed by Magritte and numbered from the edition of 300.
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$6,264 Sale Price
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L'Empire des Lumières (The Empire of Light)
By René Magritte
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Framed 25.38 x 31.38 in
Color lithograph after the 1964 oil on canvas by René Magritte, plate-signed by Magritte and numbered from the edition of 275.
The lithograph features the ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$4,872 Sale Price
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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
"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
Rene Magritte, The Indiscreet Jewels, from XXe Siecle, 1963
By René Magritte
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Rene Magritte (1898–1967), titled Les Bijoux indiscrets (The Indiscreet Jewels), from the album XXe Siecle, Nouvelle serie, XXVe Annee N°22, Noel 1963, o...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
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"La Peine Perdue (The Wasted Effort)" Lithograph after Painting by Rene Magritte
By René Magritte
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"La Peine Perdue (The Wasted Effort)" is a color lithograph after original 1962 painting by Rene Magritte. Two blue curtains are parted on either side. Two curtain shaped mirrors show a sky and clouds. A ball sits right to the left of the mirrors.
Art: 12 x 9.75 in
Frame: 22.75 x 20.38 in
René-François-Ghislain Magritte was born November 21, 1898, in Lessines, Belgium and died on August 15, 1967 in Brussels. He is one of the most important surrealist artists. Through his art, Magritte creates humor and mystery with juxtapositions and shocking irregularities. Some of his hallmark motifs include the bourgeois “little man,” bowler hats, apples, hidden faces, and contradictory texts.
René Magritte’s father was a tailor and his mother was a miller. Tragedy struck Magritte’s life when his mother committed suicide when he was only fourteen. Magritte and his two brothers were thereafter raised by their grandmother.
Magritte studied at the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts from 1916 to 1918. After graduating he worked as a wallpaper designer and in advertisement. It was during this period that he married Georgette Berger, whom he had known since they were teenagers.
In 1926, René Magritte signed...
Category
2010s Surrealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
