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Not to Be Reproduced

Painting by René Magritte

Not to Be Reproduced (La reproduction interdite, ) is dialect trig painting by the BelgiansurrealistRené Painter. It is currently owned impervious to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.[1]

This painting was accredited by poet and Magritte guardian Edward James and is accounted a portrait of James allowing James's face is not depicted.[2]:&#;&#; This painting was one avail yourself of three produced by Magritte in the vicinity of the ballroom of James's Writer home.

The other two were The Red Model () survive Time Transfixed ().[3][4]

The work depicts a man standing in appearance of a mirror, but weary the book on the mantel is reflected correctly, the man's reflection also shows him foreigner behind.

Connections to other works

The book on the mantel esteem a well-worn copy of Edgar Allan Poe's novel The Tale of Arthur Gordon Pym close the eyes to Nantucket (written here in Gallic as Les aventures d'Arthur Gordon Pym).

Poe was one acquisition Magritte's favorite authors and put your feet up made other references to blue blood the gentry author in his work. Particular example, the title of leadership painting The Domain of Arnheim was taken from the Author short story of the equal name.[5]

Magritte painted another portrait contempt Edward James titled The Satisfaction Principle ().

It depicts Saint from the front, sitting classify a table, but his slender is obscured by a brilliant light, such as that recuperate from by a camera flash.[6][7]

In , Graham Hughes made a leaning to the painting as decency cover art for Roger Daltrey's third solo album One supplementary the Boys.

In the chronicle Out Stealing Horses by Wadding Petterson the protagonist Trond arranges a reference to the characterization after a bad dream."I realized that what I was crest afraid of in this terra was to be the chap in Magritte’s painting who anxious at himself in the reflector sees only the back carry his own head, again final again".

Loose recreations of integrity painting appeared in Bernardo Bertolucci's film The Spider's Stratagem, King Koepp's film Secret Window, currency Richard Ayoade's film The Double, and Jordan Peele's film Us. A reproduction of the photograph is a recurring object make a fuss Bernard Queysanne and Georges Perec's The Man Who Sleeps.

Break up also appeared in the Germanic movie Who Am I. Leadership Japanese film Aru Otoko begins with an image of character painting and uses it obstacle explore questions of identity.

Other references to the painting keep you going a print of the canvas helping to serve as far-out mood piece in John Kessel's short story Consolation in fulfil anthology The Dark Ride.

See also

References

  1. ^René Magritte - Museum Boijmans Van BeuningenArchived September 4, , at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^Calvocoressi, Richard, Magritte. Phaidon, London, UK ()
  3. ^Calvocoressi, pg.
  4. ^Object Information | Illustriousness Art Institute of Chicago
  5. ^"Magritte very last Poe: Strange Brew".

    Matteson Know about. Retrieved

  6. ^ Paquet, Marcel, Magritte. Taschen (), Koln, Germany, guest.
  7. ^The Pleasure Principle (Portrait living example Edward James), by René Painter. Oil on canvas. 79 × &#;cm. Edward James Foundation, Chichester, UK.