The Enchanted Pose was a 1927 painting by René Magritte[2] depicting a side-by-side pair of identical female nudes in a bare interior. It has been lost since the 1930s.[3]
| The Enchanted Pose | |
|---|---|
| Artist | René Magritte |
| Year | 1927 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
In 2013, technicians From MoMa examining Magritte paintings using x-ray fluorescence discovered fragments of the composition concealed under two compositions Magritte painted in the 1930s. One was The Portrait (1935) held at MoMa, the other one was The Red Model (1935) at Stockholm's Moderna Museet.
Sometime between 1927 and the mid-1930s, Magritte had cut the painting into pieces and recycled the canvas, to be painted over. In 2016, a third fragment was identified under a painting entitled The Human Condition (1935) in the Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery. In 2017, it was announced that the fourth and final fragment was found under his work God is not a Saint (c. 1935–36), located in the Magritte Museum in Brussels.[4][5][6][7]
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edit- ^ Defeyt, Catherine; Herens, Elodie; Leen, Frederik; Vandepitte, Francisca; Strivay, David (15 June 2018). "Discovery and multi-analytical study of the last missing quarter from René Magritte's La pose enchantée". Heritage Science. 6 (33). doi:10.1186/s40494-018-0198-x.
- ^ "The Discovery of Magritte's The Enchanted Pose". Moma.org. 31 October 2013. Archived from the original on 14 September 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
- ^ Martins, Ana (10 December 2013). "Magritte's The Enchanted Pose, 1927: Palette Unveiled". Moma.org. Archived from the original on 14 September 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
- ^ "Last Piece Of Missing Magritte Painting 'The Enchanted Pose' Found In Brussels". huffingtonpost.com.au. 15 November 2017. Archived from the original on 15 November 2017. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
- ^ "MAGRITTE: The Mystery of "The Enchanted Pose" is finally solved!". www.youtube.com. 4 November 2017. Archived from the original on 3 January 2022. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
- ^ "Magritte, a mystery finally solved". www.news.uliege.be. 14 November 2017. Archived from the original on 3 January 2022. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
- ^ "Found: The Last Piece of a Jigsaw Masterpiece by René Magritte". www.atlasobscura.com. 15 November 2017. Archived from the original on 3 January 2022. Retrieved 3 January 2022.