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08/15/2023

René Magritte's Anniversary 👨‍🎨🎨🇧🇪
(21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967)
Belgian Surrealist artist.
René Magritte’s masterpiece 'The Castle of the Pyrenees' was commissioned by the artist’s longtime friend, the international lawyer, poet, and author Harry Torczyner. The unfolding of the commission and evolution of the painting are documented in letters between the two men, which were published by the Israel Museum in 1991. Though Magritte had complete freedom, the correspondence reveals that his patron was encouraged to express his opinions on the choice of a subject.............................
"The Castle of the Pyrenees" - 1959
Oil on canvas 200 x 145 cm
Gift of Harry Torczyner, New York, to American Friends
of the Israel Museum
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel🏛️🇮🇱
'The Castle of the Pyrenees' has become one of Magritte’s best known and most-reproduced images. It embodies the artist’s typical disturbing juxtaposition of familiar objects, combined with captivating poetry and mystery.
From a number of drawings proposed by Magritte, Torczyner selected one of a large rock surmounted by a castle. Intimately acquainted with the artist’s repertoire, Torczyner added the suggestion of a sky on a clear day and a rough darkish sea “because over the dark sea or ocean there rises the rock of hope, topped by a fortress, a castle.” As Magritte refined the painting, he decided to exclude other proposed additions so that it would retain the “vigor” and “harshness” he envisioned.
https://www.imj.org.il/en/collections/194552
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08/15/2023

ANNIVERSAIRE RENE’ MAGRITTE👨‍🎨🎨🇧🇪
(born November 21, 1898, Lessines, Belgium—died August 15, 1967, Brussels)
Surrealism aimed to transcend the realist depiction of scenes available to ordinary perception. Under the influence of the new discipline of psychoanalysis, surrealists made use of such techniques as dream analysis to uncover the unconscious workings of the mind and the symbols that the unconscious works with. Not much of Magritte's oeuvre consists of literally inconsistent images, but at least one famous image does, 'The Blank Signature'. ..........................
"The Blank Signature" / "La firma in bianco", 1965
oil on canvas 81.3 x 65.1 cm
lower right: Magritte; across top reverse: Le Blanc Seing / 1965
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
National Gallery of Art Washington, DC 20565🏛🇺🇸
This painting utilizes a technique like that of the Schuster fork, and illustrates how the mind constructs the impossibility. The mind puts together the separate elements into a "coherent" whole of these parts. The horse is thus bisected by a patch of background grass. Also, one of the tree trunks is in front of the horse but its base is behind the horse. It certainly seems that these elements are inconsistent with our conception of a rider in a forest. For example, it qualifies as an occlusion illusion, since reversal of occlusions is sufficient to produce a consistent image.
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.66422.html?fbclid=IwAR2p9KwGSCCJbOGbo0a8sXvnBlMVgIDQlTe-jVZTd6ftv89eYKggep7elnU
https://www.renemagritte.org/the-blank-signature.jsp?fbclid=IwAR0JCnSzH68xQ3r4PCs_8-dd5V2pkvaxzBaUc8NE5PvxPlrKS5qC43KeUAg
http://www.rene-magritte.com/blank-signature/?fbclid=IwAR0NCvgXQR9lC1qELMNo9dYYWXV92Kwi5O2CSthDBA3S4FhuYt-CRsNfCUc
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08/15/2023

Suzie Zuzek (American artist and textile designer) 1920 - 2011
Seascape, 1976
watercolour, ink, and graphite on paper
38.1 x 27.9 cm. (15 x 11 in.)
executed in 1976
private collection
© photo Christie's

Catalogue Note Christie's
Zuzek's designs are full of the flora and fauna of the Southern Florida. This watercolor includes naturalistic snail and conch shells, flounder, and angelfish floating amongst a web of seaweed and aqua blue waters. Seascape is exceptionally vibrant, with the pale fish and shells standing out in high contrast the darker water.

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Suzie Zuzek (American, 1920-2011) grew up on a farm near Buffalo, New York. After serving in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAACs) during World War II, she attended Pratt Institute on the G. I. Bill. After graduating in 1949, she quickly found work in New York designing prints for both fashion and decorator fabrics, but marriage took her to Key West, Florida, in 1955. When former New Yorkers Jim Russell and Peter Pell opened their screen print factory there in 1961, she eagerly accepted a position as designer, working part-time while raising three daughters.

Over the next 23 years, Zuzek created over 1,550 designs for Key West Hand Print Fabrics, most of which were used by Pulitzer’s women’s, men’s, children’s, and home furnishings lines. It was common then and remains so today for textile designers’ contributions to fashion to remain anonymous. But the “Lilly Look” was synonymous with wild, wonderful prints, and those prints were overwhelmingly the product of Zuzek’s boundless imagination

Source: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

11/22/2022

Ina Sjöström (Finnish painter) 1883 - 1969
Syystalvi (Autumn winter), s.d.
oil
59 x 100 cm. (23.23 x 39.37 in.)
signed
private collection
© photo Hagelstam & Co

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