Surrealism · 1898–1967 · Belgian
René Magritte
Across 4 works, the colors are mostly brown (42%), gray (32%) and black (11%). On average the canvases are mid-toned, moderately saturated and warm. Signature colors, used far more here than across the collection: light scarlet red, vivid red, iron, pale tan and graphite.
Color print
The swatches covering most of these canvases, averaged over every work, dark to light.
- MG 218 graphite 11.1% of canvas
- MG 217 iron 10.6% of canvas
- MG 222 charcoal 6.7% of canvas
- MG 167 brown 5.5% of canvas
- MG 211 dark slate 5.0% of canvas
- MG 176 taupe 4.9% of canvas
- MG 175 stone 4.7% of canvas
- MG 163 pale tan 4.4% of canvas
- MG 174 warm grey 4.2% of canvas
- MG 216 dark grey 4.0% of canvas
- MG 223 soot 3.6% of canvas
- MG 166 amber brown 3.5% of canvas
- MG 013 vivid red 3.4% of canvas
- MG 014 light scarlet red 2.7% of canvas
- MG 172 oatmeal 2.3% of canvas
- MG 177 dark taupe 2.1% of canvas
Measurements
Composition
Averaged over 4 works: 51% of the visual weight in the right half, 56% in the upper half; symmetry 0.42; 55% calm space; half of the detail in 22% of the canvas. Measured from each image, not a rule the painters followed.
Works
- The Eye, 1932–1935
- On the Threshold of Liberty, 1937
- La durée poignardée (Time Transfixed), 1938
- The Banquet, 1958