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RENÉ MAGRITTE (AFTER) La Recherche de l'Absolu.
Color lithograph, circa 1970. 455x356 mm; 18x14 1/4 inches, full margins. Signed by the artist's widow, Georgette Magritte, and numbered 148/150 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Mourlot, Paris. A very good impression with strong colors.
This color lithograph is based on Magritte's (1898-1967) celebrated same-titled paintings (he made several versions on this theme) from the 1940s. In a letter to his friend, the author Claude Spaak, in 1941, Magritte wrote, "Among the recent canvases, there are three versions of 'The search for the absolute', which is a leafless tree (in winter) but with branches that provide the shape of a leaf, a Leaf even so! One version takes place in the evening with a setting sun, another in the morning with a white sphere on the horizon and the third shows this great, self-willed leaf rising against a starry sky. These researches have allowed me to produce three very pure pictures, with which you would have been very pleased, I think."
