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A black and white print of four images in a grid in the form of a postcard.

The black and white print shows four images in the form of a grid. The top left image is the torso of a naked woman; the top right image is a tuba with the bell facing down and surrounded by flames. The image in the lower left is of four narrow boards of distinctively grained wood; in the lower right corner is a drawing in white on a black background of man’s head. There is a white cloud shape on his forehead with the word Pierre written across it. Above his head in white is the word Chapeau.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2012.204.15
People
Rene Magritte, Belgian (Lessines, Belgium 1898 - 1967 Brussels, Belgium)
Title
La solution de rébus/The key to the riddle
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: The Guaranteed Surrealist Postcard Series
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print, postcard
Date
1937
Culture
Belgian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/342741

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Photo offset lithograph
Dimensions
9.2 x 14.1 cm (3 5/8 x 5 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Jack Banning, New York, [Christie's East], sold: to Rick Wester, Dobbs Ferry, New York, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2012.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Rick Wester and Jennifer Garvin
Copyright
© C. Herscovici, Brussels / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
2012
Object Number
2012.204.15
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1300 Early Modernism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/29/2015 - 10/14/2015

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