The Menaced Assassin

René Magritte · Brussels 1927

Before you is The Menaced Assassin — a painting by the Belgian artist René Magritte, Brussels nineteen twenty-seven. It's oil on canvas, about 1.5 by 2 meters. You can pick out the interior room, and the group of people.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 59 1/4" x 6' 4 7/8" (150.4 x 195.2 cm) · Credit Kay Sage Tanguy Fund

Hanging beside it in Gallery 517: Untitled, Untitled

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: The Red Studio, The Piano Lesson

More by René Magritte here: The False Mirror, The Lovers, The Portrait