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Stamp by René Magritte
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*).
It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
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A tribute to René Magritte
Peu avant sa mort, Magritte déclara à propos de sa toile la plus célèbre : « La fameuse pipe, me l’a-t-on assez reprochée ! Et pourtant, pouvez-vous la bourrer, ma pipe ? Non, n’est-ce pas, elle n’est qu’une représentation. Donc si j’avais écrit sous mon tableau “ceci est une pipe”, j’aurais menti ! ». Suite à une longue maladie, René Magritte s’éteint chez lui, à Schaerbeek (Commune de Bruxelles, Belgique), le 15 août 1967, il aurait eu 70 ans quelques mois plus tard. La mort laisse inachevée sa dernière œuvre : une main coupée posée sur un livre fermé. René Magritte repose au cimetière de Schaerbeek. En hommage à sa mémoire, voici la fleur du pommier.
"Les titres des tableaux ne sont pas des explications et les tableaux ne sont pas des illustrations des titres." - René Magritte
"Un intellectuel, c'est quelqu'un qui entend le mot "pipe" et pense à Magritte." - Alan Patrick Herbert
"Il faut que la peinture serve à autre chose qu'à la peinture." - René Magritte
"Je veille, dans la mesure du possible, à ne faire que des peintures qui suscitent le mystère avec la précision et l'enchantement nécessaire à la vie des idées. " - René Magritte
"Dans mon enfance . . . . l'art de peindre me paraissait vaguement magique et le peintre doué de pouvoirs supérieurs. " - René Magritte
"Le mot Dieu n'a pas de sens pour moi, mais je le restitue au mystère, pas au néant. " - René Magritte
Notes of biography
René Magritte was born in 1898 in Lessines (Hainaut, Belgium). After traditional studies, he followed classes to the Brussels Academy of Art (1916-1918). He got married with a friend of childwood in 1922 and worked as a draughtsman in a wallpaper factory and devoted his leisure activities to the painting. René Magritte left this first work to create posters, advertising drawings or, at the end of the 20s, images for catalogs of commercial sale. A this time, his art is all together a little of cubism, futurism and abstraction.
Magritte discovered de Chirico’s work in 1923 with his "metaphysical Inside" which had a big influence on Magritte’s work until 1926. In 1924, he met writers Camille Goemans and Marcel Lecomte; with them, Paul Nougé and E.L.T. Mesens, Magritte participated to activities of the Belgian surrealist group, and contributed to several often short-lived reviews. Supported by the Gallery the Centaur (Brussels), Magritte dedicated himself to the painting from 1926. He participated, with his group, to the "Society of Mystery".
René Magritte settled down near Paris (Perreux / Marne) in 1927, for three years. He joined the French surrealist group and worked with Jean Arp, Joan Miro, Paul Eluard, etc.; he took part to "The surrealist Revolution" (1929). The same year Magritte and his wife spent holidays with Salvador Dali in his house in Cadaquès. In 1930, Magritte came back to Brussels and joined the local surrealist group. His gallery (The Centaur) having gone bankrupt, his friend Mesens bought all his paintings.
In 1932, Magritte adhered to the Belgian communist party. Magritte painted, drew, travelled, contributed to the review "Minotaure". Surrealists understood coverage n°10 of the review as a premonitory vision of the war and all it included. The activity of Magritte was intense. In 1940, he spent some months in France (Carcassonne). In 1943 was published Paul Nougé’s monograph of Magritte. Four years later it was Louis Scutenaire one’s.
In 1946, Magritte published pamphlets (L’Imbécile, L’Emmerdeur, L’Enculeur). From 1952 till 1956, the artist edited the review "La Carte d'après nature". He produced in 1956, numerous short films and contributed in 1961, to the review "Rhétorique" with André Bosmans. This same year, during an exhibition in London, André Breton wrote his first text about him.
Year 1927, Magritte organized his first personal exhibition in Brussels. He would participate to all the events of the various surrealists groups where he was active (at the end of the 20s, the 30s and 40). Then, from the immediate post-war years his works were shown in famous exhibitions and retrospectives all over the world. The artist also created several decorations and monumental works (The ignorant Fairy, The mysterious Barricades, etc.). In the middle of the 20s, René Magritte discovered "his way", his own language tinged sometimes with black humor, an accurate painting of a reality which moves inexorably towards the absurd or the strange, a painting which carries away the one who looks in questions as well as in a certain perplexity. Magritte had his own particular place in the surrealist painting.
He died on August 15th, 1967 in Schaerbeek ( Brussels).
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To read about the artist :
- « Magritte », Bernard Noël, Ed. Flammarion, Paris, 1977
- « René Magritte », A. M. Hammacher, Ed. Ars Mundi, 1988
- « René Magritte », Jacques Meuris, Ed. Taschen, Cologne, 1990
- « René Magritte », cat. d'expo., Musée Cantini, Marseille, 1992
- « René Magritte », Alden Todd, Coll. Carrés d’Art, Ed. De la Martinière, 2000
- « Magritte », Michel Butor et autres, Ed. Galerie du Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2003
- « René Magritte, l’empire des images », Pierre Sterckx, Ed. Assouline, 2003
- « Magritte et la photographie », Patrick Roegiers, Ed. Ludion, 2005
- « Magritte », Michel Draguet, folio biographies, Ed. Gallimard, 2014
- « Magritte : La trahison des images », collectif, Ed. Centre Pompidou, 2016
To read from the artist :
- « Ecrits complets », Ed. Flammarion, Paris, 1979
- « Les mots et les images : choix d’écrits », Coll. Espace Nord, Ed. Labor, 2000
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Stamp by René Magritte
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*).
It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stampsHandwritten document
Michelle Champetier Collection / This document is not for sale
Listen
Watch
A tribute to René Magritte
Peu avant sa mort, Magritte déclara à propos de sa toile la plus célèbre : « La fameuse pipe, me l’a-t-on assez reprochée ! Et pourtant, pouvez-vous la bourrer, ma pipe ? Non, n’est-ce pas, elle n’est qu’une représentation. Donc si j’avais écrit sous mon tableau “ceci est une pipe”, j’aurais menti ! ». Suite à une longue maladie, René Magritte s’éteint chez lui, à Schaerbeek (Commune de Bruxelles, Belgique), le 15 août 1967, il aurait eu 70 ans quelques mois plus tard. La mort laisse inachevée sa dernière œuvre : une main coupée posée sur un livre fermé. René Magritte repose au cimetière de Schaerbeek. En hommage à sa mémoire, voici la fleur du pommier.
"Les titres des tableaux ne sont pas des explications et les tableaux ne sont pas des illustrations des titres." - René Magritte
"Un intellectuel, c'est quelqu'un qui entend le mot "pipe" et pense à Magritte." - Alan Patrick Herbert
"Il faut que la peinture serve à autre chose qu'à la peinture." - René Magritte
"Je veille, dans la mesure du possible, à ne faire que des peintures qui suscitent le mystère avec la précision et l'enchantement nécessaire à la vie des idées. " - René Magritte
"Dans mon enfance . . . . l'art de peindre me paraissait vaguement magique et le peintre doué de pouvoirs supérieurs. " - René Magritte
"Le mot Dieu n'a pas de sens pour moi, mais je le restitue au mystère, pas au néant. " - René Magritte
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