René Magritte (1898-1967)
René Magritte (1898-1967)

L'éclat du jour

細節
René Magritte (1898-1967)
L'éclat du jour
signed 'Magritte' (lower left); titled 'L'ÉCLAT DU JOUR' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
21 1/4 x 25 5/8in. (54 x 65cm.)
Painted in 1967
來源
Chaïm Perelman, Belgium
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (7356)
Eugene Schuster, London Arts Group, Detroit
出版
Letter from Magritte to Chaïm Perelman, 24 February 1967.
Letter from Magritte to Chaïm Perelman, 11 March 1967.
R. Passeron, René Magritte, Paris 1970, p. 50 (illustrated).
S. Alexandrian & P. Waldberg, René Magritte, New York 1980, p. 50 (illustrated in colour).
ed. D. Sylvester, René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné, Oil Paintings, Objects and Bronzes 1949-1967, vol. III, London 1993, no. 1062, p. 444 (illustrated).
展覽
Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 41e salon [du] Cercle Royal Artistique et Littéraire de Charleroi, February 1968, no. 138.
Yamaguchi, Musée Préfectural, René Magritte, April-May 1988. This exhibition later travelled to Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, René Magritte, May-July 1988, no. 155 (illustrated in colour in the catalogue).

拍品專文

"The pictorial experience confirms my faith in the unknown possibilities of life. All these unknown things which are coming to light convince me that our happiness too depends on an enigma inseparable from man and that our only duty is to try to grasp this enigma." ('La Ligne de Vie' reproduced in, Exh. cat., René Magritte 1898-1967, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Belgium, Brussels 1998, p. 48)

In L'éclat du jour, two of Magritte's most common motifs, the apple and the bell meet on a window-sill engendering that familiar sense of enigma and mystery that pierces our conventional sense of what reality is and so magically permeates all of Magritte's art. In front of a mountain landscape bathed in sunlight, the apple has grown a face and, as a result, the crack in the bell takes on the appearance of a somewhat sinister and enigmatic smile. Two inanimate objects are fused with poetry and life through a dramatic encounter that is reminiscent of Lautréamont's famous phrase: "As beautiful as an umbrella and a sewing machine lying together on a dissecting table."