René Magritte, The Treachery of Images (This is Not a Pipe), 1929, Oil on canvas, 60 x 80 cm. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by the Mr. and Mrs. William Preston Harrison Collection, 78.7. © 2006 C. Herscovici, London, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo © 2006 Museum Associates/LACMA.

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, the first major exhibition to explore the impact of Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte’s (1898–1967) work on U.S. and European artists of the post-war generation. Featuring sixty-eight paintings and drawings by Magritte, including many international loans of his signature works, and sixty-eight works in diverse media by thirty-one contemporary artists such as Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, Vija Celmins, Robert Gober, Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons, Ed Ruscha, and Andy Warhol, the exhibition examines the different and sometimes unconscious ways that pop, conceptual, and post-modern sensibilities have referenced Magritte’s ideas and imagery. In addition, the exhibition installation is specially designed by conceptual artist John Baldessari and includes an inventive presentation that is playful and humorous, yet provides a deep visual understanding of Magritte’s work. Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images is on view at LACMA through March 4, 2007, and will not travel to other venues. (courtesy www.Artdaily.org)

René Magritte, Time Transfixed, 1938. oil on canvas, 147 x 99 cm. The Art Institute of Chicago, Joseph Winterbotham Collection, 1970.426. © 2006 C. Herscovici, London, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo © The Art Institute of Chicago.