Charcoal on paper, drawing. From a private collection. 9,4 x 12 in. (24 x 30,5 cm). Rene Magritte (1898-1967, Belgian). It is being sold in the manner or style of the artist. Surreal composition with a man in a bowler hat, landscape and embankment.

Through creating common images and placing them in extreme contexts, Magritte sough to have his viewers question the ability of art to truly represent an object. In his paintings, he often played with the perception of an image and the fact that the painting of the image could never actually be the object.