The Lovers

René Magritte · Paris 1928

Before you is The Lovers, painted by René Magritte in Paris in nineteen twenty-eight — two faces kissing through cloth. Magritte's mother drowned when he was thirteen, and he spent his life politely declining the connection people cannot help drawing.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 21 3/8 x 28 7/8" (54 x 73.4 cm) · Credit Gift of Richard S. Zeisler

Hanging beside it in Gallery 517: Clochard à Marseille (Homeless in Marseille), Mannequin in Window

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Handsplay, Paris, Self-Portrait with Palette, Portrait of Maria Lani, Kenneth Fearing, Self-Portrait I, Portrait of Mme Zamaron

More by René Magritte here: The Menaced Assassin, The False Mirror, The Portrait