René Magritte / Le 16 Septembre / about 1955

René Magritte
Le 16 Septembre
about 1955
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Creator Name: Magritte, René
Creator Nationality: European; Belgian
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: 1898 - 1967
Gender: M
Creator Name-CRT: René Magritte
Title: Le 16 Septembre
View: front
Creation Start Date: 1953
Creation End Date: 1958
Creation Date: about 1955
Object Type: Drawings and Watercolors
Materials and Techniques: gouache
Dimensions: H.14 x W.10-7/8 in. (sheet)
Inscriptions: SIGNATURE
AMICA Contributor: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Owner Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
ID Number: 80.78
Credit Line: Gift of Marguerite and Russell Cowles II in memory of Russell Cowles
Copyright: ? C. Herscovici, Brussels / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Rights: http://www.arsny.com
Context:

Magritte ranks among the greatest Surrealist painters. Trees are a recurrent subject in his work. As Magritte stated: "Growing from the earth to the sun, a tree is an image of certain happiness. To perceive this image we must be immobile like the tree. When we are moving, it is the tree which becomes the spectator. It is witness, equally, in the shape of chairs, tables and doors, to the more or less agitated spectacle of our life. The tree, having become a coffin, disappears into the earth. And when it is transformed into fire, it vanishes into air." Here Magritte superimposes a crescent moon in front of the tree. The artist referred to his intentional juxtaposition of incongruous objects as "objective stimulus." In reference to this image, Magritte observed: "I have just painted the moon on a tree in the grey-blue colors of evening." Typically, the titles of Magritte's paintings were determined after they were completed. In this case, the title was the idea of Magritte's friend, Louis Scutenaire, a famous Surrealist poet.

AMICA ID: MIA_.80.78
Component Measured: sheet
Measurement Unit: in
AMICA Library Year: 2000
Media Metadata Rights: ?The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

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