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The Lovers
The Lovers
1928
The Lovers (Les Amants)
-Oil painting
-73.4 cm x 54 cm or 21 3/8 in x 28 7/8 in
-The work can be viewed at Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
What Magritte has achieved from this painting is that he has taken us
into a private or maybe a clandestine moment that two enigmatic people
share with great ambiguity and mystery or maybe the lack of it. To quote
one of the leaders of the surrealist movements, Andre Breton, “We
reduce art to its simplest expression, which is love”