The paintings of the Belgian Surrealist Rene Margritte (1898-1967) have
exerted an extraordinary fascination, particularly since the enormous
increase in awareness and popularity of his work during the 1960s.
Margritte shows us a world of silence and isolation in which familiar
objects are altered or juxtaposed in "impossible" combinations in order
to create a sense of disorientation and the absurd. Many of the most
memorable paintings date from the three prolific years 1927-30, when he
lived near Paris and was in close touch with the writer Andre Brenton
and other French Surrealists.