René Magritte Une Porte s'Ouvre sur la Nuit Veloutee, from Les Enfant by mourlot

RENE MAGRITTE
Une Porte s'Ouvre sur la Nuit Veloutee

This artwork titled "Une Porte s'Ouvre sur la Nuit Veloutee" from the suite" Les Enfants Trouves, created in 1953 and printed/published in 1968 in an edition of 350. It is a color lithograph on paper by renown Belgian artist, Rene Magritte 1898-1967. It is signed in the stone by the artist and signed in pencil at the lower right corner by the printer, Fernand Mourlot. Published by A.C Mazo, Paris, France and printed by Fernand Mourlot, Paris, France. The image size is 10.65 x 18.75 inches, sheet size is 17.5 x 23.5 inches.


About the artist.

Rene Magritte was born on the 21st November, 1898 in Hainaut, Belgium. His father was a tailor and a merchant. As his business did not go well the family had to move often. René lost his mother early and tragically - she committed suicide for unclear reasons. René was only 14 years old at the time.
From 1916 through 1918 Magritte studied in the Royal Academy of Arts in Brussels (Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts). He became a wallpaper designer and commercial artist. His early painting works were executed under the influence of the Cubism and Futurism (1918-20), then he was inspired by the Purists and Fernand Léger. In 1922 Magritte married Georgette Berger, with whom he first became acquainted when fifteen years old. After meeting again in 1920, she became his model and then wife.
The friendship with Giorgio de Chirico's and Dadaistic poetry constituted an important artistic turning-point for Magritte. In 1925 he came close with a group of Dadaists and co-operated in the magazines Aesophage and Marie, together with E.L.T. Mesens, Jean Arp, Francis Picabia, Schwitters, Tzara and Man Ray.
In 1926 Magritte painted The Lost Jockey, it is his first painting that he allowed to be labeled as "Surrealist". After his first, badly-received, one-man show in Brussels in 1927, he left for Paris. In 1927-30 Magritte lived in France, where he participated in the activities of the Surrealists, establishing a close friendship in particular with Max Ernst, Dali, André Breton and especially with Paul Eluard.
In Paris, Magritte's system of conceptual painting was formed, it remained almost unchanged until the end of his life.
Demonstrating the problems of visual perception and illusionary of images, Magritte used the symbols of mirrors, eyes, windows, stages and curtains and pictures within pictures (The False Mirror, 1935, The Key to the Fields. 1936, Beautiful World. 1962.)
In the 1950s Magritte executed two fresco cycles: The Enchanted Realm for a casino in Knokke-le-Zut (1953) and The Ignorant Fairy (1957) for the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Charleroi. These monumental compositions repeat the motifs of his previous paintings. In his last year Magritte began to make sculptures of his painted images. Rene Magritte’s work is held in numerous major museums and collections worldwide. Magritte died of pancreatic cancer on 15 August 1967, and was interred in Schaerbeek Cemetery, Evere, Brussels.
Condition:
New frame with minor signs of handling.
- Custom Wood Framing
- Acid-Free components
- Tru-Vue Conservation Clear Acrylic:
- Blocks 99% of UV rays
- Shatter resistance safeguards against injury and damage to Artwork