Paysage de Baucis (Landscape of Baucis)

1966

René Magritte

Artist, Belgian, 1898 - 1967

Created with black lines and hatching on cream-white paper, a person’s disembodied but properly placed eyes, nose, and lips float between a fedora and a three-piece suit. Short horizontal lines create a border around the perimeter of the composition. The artist numbered the print 52/100 in the lower left margin and signed it in graphite in the right corner, “Magritte.”
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    aquatint and lift-ground aquatint in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Frank R. and Jeannette H. Eyerly

  • Dimensions

    plate: 22.5 x 16.9 cm (8 7/8 x 6 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 37.5 x 27.6 cm (14 3/4 x 10 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1994.63.5

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Kaplan/Baum 1982, no. 5, State (A)

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Frank R. and Jeannette H. Eyerly, Des Moines; gift to NGA, 1994.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1982

  • Kaplan, Gilbert E. and Timothy Baum. The Graphic Work of René Magritte. New York: II EDITIONS, 1982.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: 52/100; lower right in graphite: Magritte

Wikidata ID

Q75125447

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