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René MAGRITTE

La Fidélité des Images, 1976



Box set with 16 original photographs, (11,4 x 7.6 cm) mounted on sheet with margin / matted sheet): about 24–24.5 × 17.8–17.9 cm; the 16 prints were issued as a portfolio of 16 gelatin-silver prints, each mounted under a passe-partout in the publisher’s box; each print is numbered/monogrammed in pencil (by Georgette Magritte in the posthumous edition). Limited edition of 110 copies; signed and authenticated.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in Brussels, Paris, Vienna, etc. (Exhibition catalog Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne, 1987, p. 214). The photos were captioned by Louis Scutenaire: 1. L‘amour, 1928; 2. La mort des fantômes, 1928; 3. La déscente de la Courtille, 1928; 4. Les voyantes, 1930; 5. L‘ombre et son ombre, 1932; 6. La vertu récompensée, 1934; 7. Le jugement dernier, 1935; 8. L‘étoile de pierre, 1935; 9. L‘apparition, 1935; 10. Les pharaons ou la huitième dynastie, 1935; 11. Le bonheur du jour, 1935; 12. Dieu, le huitième jour, 1937; 13 L‘éminence grise, 1938; 14. Le déstructeur, 1943; 15. La reine Sémiramis, 1947; 16. L‘oiseleur.