The Telescope (Magritte)

Le Téléscope (The Telescope)

Artist	René Magritte
Year	1963
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	176.1 cm × 114.9 cm ( 69 ⁵⁄₁₆ in × 45 ¹⁄₄ in)
Location	Menil Collection, Houston

The Telescope (French: Le Téléscope) is a 1963 oil on canvas painting by René Magritte.^[1]

The painting depicts a window through which a partly clouded blue sky can be seen. However, the right side of the window is partially open, revealing a black background where the viewer would expect to see a continuation of the clouds and sky.

References

↑ http://www.artchive.com/artchive/m/magritte/telescop.jpg.html

René Magritte

Notable paintings	The Difficult Crossing (1926/1963) The Enchanted Pose (1927) The Menaced Assassin (1927) The Adulation of Space (1927-1928) The Empty Mask (1928) The Treachery of Images (1928–1929) On the Threshold of Liberty (1929/1937) The Voice of Space (1931) Elective Affinities (1933) The Human Condition (1933/1935) The Portrait (1935) Not to be Reproduced (1937) Time Transfixed (1938) The Palace of Memories (1939) The Listening Room (1952) Golconda (1953) The Empire of Lights (1954) The Mysteries of the Horizon (1955) The Telescope (1963) The Son of Man (1964) The Great War (1964)

Movement	Surrealism

Related articles	Magritte Museum Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts Western painting

Wikimedia	Magritte at Wiktionary Magritte at Wikibooks Magritte at Wikiquote Magritte at Wikisource Magritte at Commons Magritte at Wikinews

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