Movement: Surrealism
Theme: Allegory
Technique: Oil on canvas
Museum: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Dimensions: 63.5 cm × 93.98 cm
The Treachery of Images (La trahison des images 1928–29) is a series of paintings by Rene Magritte, famous for its inscription Ceci n'est pas une pipe, French for this is not a pipe. The paintings are currently housed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in Los Angeles, California, and at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas.
The picture shows a pipe that looks as though it might come from a tobacco store advertisement. Magritte painted below the pipe: "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" (This is not a pipe), which seems false but is actually true. The painting is not a pipe, but rather an image of a pipe. As Magritte himself commented: "The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture 'This is a pipe,' I'd have been lying!" (cited in Harry Torczyner, Magritte: Ideas and Images, p. 71.)
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