Magritte Lovers with Covered Heads Les Amants Surrealism Statue, Assorted Sizes

The Lovers (1928, Oil on canvas, 54 x 73 cm) was a Surrealist painting completed by Rene Magritte. It shows a man and a woman kissing, but shielded by cloaks wrapped on their heads. Their facial identities are hidden except for their clothes. The man wears a black business suit with tie and the woman a sleeveless top. Although their faces are covered by a veil, the lovers kiss passionately. The strangeness this creates is typical of Magritte's work. Behind the visible -- the kiss -- hides the invisible -- the emotion expressed by the face behind the veil.

This product is an adaptation of the painting into a statue. Surrealism was a 20th century art movement which mixed improbable dreamlike images as a way to challenge a viewer's understanding of the natural world.

• Lovers with Heads Covered Les Amants Statue is part of the Parastone Mouseion 3DMuseum Collection of collectible figurines. (PN MAG05)
• Made from resin with hand painted details.
• Includes color card with image of the original painting and a description of the artist.
• Two Sizes:
• Standard 4.75 in H x 5 in W x 3.5 in D. Weight 2 lbs. PN MAG05
• Small 3.75 in H x 3.75 in W x 3 in D. Weight 1.25 lbs. PN PA21MAG

Rene Magritte (1898-1967) was born in Lessines near Tournai in French speaking Belgium in 1898. He spent his childhood in Chatelet and Charleroi. He attended the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels from 1916 to 1918. There he met the brothers Victor and Pierre Bourgeois and the painter Pierre-Louis Flouquet. In 1919 Magritte contributed to the first issue of the review Au Volant published by the Bourgeois brothers. After a year of military service he worked as a designer, first of all for a wallpaper manufacturer in Brussels and then as a freelance designer of posters, publicity materials and exhibition stands. He painted his first acclaimed Surrealist painting, The Last Jockey, in 1926 and in the same year, along with the other Belgian surrealists, signed the declamatory leaflets Two Disgraces and the Married Couple of the Eiffel Tower. Between 1927 and 1930 Magritte lived in Le Perreux-sur-Marne near Paris, during which time he became acquainted with Hans Arp, Andre Breton, Salvador Dali, Paul Eluard and Joan Miro. Magritte's provocative essay Words and Pictures was published in the last issue of La Revolution Surrealiste in 1929, a year after he painted The Empty Mask.