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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 2022 | La trahison des images, Ceci n"est pas une pipe (This is not a pipe) | 117 | Morton Casa de Subastas | Mexico City | |||
Prints & Multiples
38.8 x 52 cm (15.28 x 20.47 in)
Lithograph
Signed with seal; With Magritte Succession seal; With copyright seal on the back
RENÉ MAGRITTE
(Lessines, Belgium, 1898 - Schaerbeek, Belgium, 1967)
La trahison des images, Ceci n"est pas une pipe (This is not a pipe)
Signed with seal
Lithograph 117 / 275, posthumous edition
With Magritte Succession seal.
With copyright seal on the back.
Lithograph published by the Magritte Foundation.
This lithographic work comes from a painting made by the artist in 1929, which is in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Michel Foucault analyzes the apparent contradictions between images and words proposed by this work by René Magritte. In the strict sense, the drawing of a pipe is not a pipe in itself, but if the image represents the pipe then it is the pipe itself despite not fulfilling the specific meaning of the object: smoking. The disconcerting thing, Foucault argues, is precisely that it is inevitable to relate the text to the drawing while at the same time it is impossible to define the plan that allows us to say whether the writing is true, false or contradictory.
38.8 x 52 cm image / 45 x 60 cm paper
