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TITLE:
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Scheherazade
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CATEGORY:
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Prints
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MATERIALS:
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Lithograph
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MARKINGS:
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Signed Magritte
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SIZE:
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h: 28.8 x w: 20.5 in / h: 73.2 x w: 52.1 cm
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REGION:
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Belgian
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STYLE:
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Surrealism
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DESCRIPTION:
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The mysterious story-teller of A Thousand and One Nights appears here before us as a gaze of perals coming like the smoke from Aladdin's lamp out of a "bilboquet". This object of mystery dating from Georgette's portrait in 1923, reappears regularly in Magritte's work. A little like mannequins in the work of Giorgio de Chirico, these biboquets that Max Ernst called "phallustrade" signify the erection of the mysterious, the desire that the invisible - retired in to itself - has to be seen. The mystery of Being concerns us, encircles us and calls us towards it. The retreat of Being atrracts us, it is our first pre-occupation and regards us before the secondary regard that we turn toward it when we are guided by resemblance. The picture resembles Being as Being, in the measure that the painting assembles or directs our view upon the regard, the regard that comes from Being and is not invented by us.
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PROVENANCE:
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Private Collection
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