Les Bijoux indiscrets, 1963

The Indiscreet Jewellery

ArtistRené Magritte, Lessines 1898–1967 Bruxelles

Drucker*inFernand Mourlot, Paris 1895–1988

Colour lithograph

Image dimensions23,5 × 30,2 cm

Sheet dimensions24,5 × 31,5 cm

Status

on display, room 032.2

About the workThe French artist René Magritte is known for images that transform the everyday into the fantastical or even unsettling. “The Indiscreet Jewels” is an early lithograph that was produced in 1963 as a supplement for the magazine “XX Siècle”. Magritte based the title on the mid-eighteenth-century novel of the same name by the philosopher Denis Diderot. In it, a magic ring makes “indiscreet jewels” – a euphemism for vaginas – talk. Rather than a bracelet, Magritte has added a face to this person’s forearm.

AccessionKemp Collection Foundation 2016

Provenance[...]; 2016 Stiftung Sammlung Kemp im Kunstpalast erworben durch Schenkung Willi Kemp (Köln 1927 - 2020 Düsseldorf)

Inventory numberKemp 1520

Post-War Modernism

Contact

sammlung@kunstpalast.de

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