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René Magritte: The Artist's Materials

René Magritte: The Artist's Materials

Defeyt, Catherine
Vandepitte, Francisca
Strivay, David

Paperback

Series: Artist's Materials

Art HistoryConservation & PreservationPainting Instruction

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ISBN10: 1606068008
ISBN13: 9781606068007
Publisher: Getty Conservation Institute
Published: Jul 4 2023
Pages: 120
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.40 Width: 7.50 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
The first book-length material study of the works of Belgian Surrealist René Magritte.

René Magritte (1898-1967) is the most famous Belgian artist of the twentieth century and a celebrated representative of the Surrealist movement. Much has been written about his practices, artistic community, and significance within the history of modernism, but little has been documented regarding his process.

This volume examines fifty oil paintings made by Magritte between 1921 and 1967, now held at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. This technical study of his works using noninvasive scientific imaging and chemical analysis reveals the artist's painting materials, his habit of overpainting previous compositions, and the origins and mechanisms of surface and pigment degradation. Of interest to conservators, scientists, curators, and enthusiasts of twentieth-century art, this book expands our understanding of Magritte the artist and provides new and useful findings that will inform strategies for the future care of his works.

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