The Portrait

René Magritte · Brussels 1935

This one's called The Portrait — a painting by the Belgian artist René Magritte, Brussels nineteen thirty-five. Oil on canvas — about 73 by 50 centimeters. Somewhere in there: the food on a table, and the eye.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 28 7/8 x 19 7/8" (73.3 x 50.2 cm) · Credit Gift of Kay Sage Tanguy

Hanging beside it in Gallery 523: Self-Portrait I

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