René Magritte, ink drawing – 1939/40
As a grand master of surrealism, Belgian artist René Magritte left his mark on art history. With a broad arsenal of imagination, he combined all kinds of elements that had no logical connection with each other. The artist stripped recognisable objects of their physical properties and removed them from their realism. Magritte plays with illusion full of symbolic meaning and the viewer wanders in wonder.
With a fine and minimal brushstroke, Magritte gave shape to his pen drawing “Femme hornu”. He may be alluding to the old expression “to put horns on someone”, which referred to adultery. This beautiful ink drawing dates from after a brief break-up between René Magritte and his muse and wife. One could argue that the portrait, bearing horns and resembling Georgette, represents the betrayed victim.
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