A hidden portrait was discovered under the famous surrealist painting "The Fifth Season"
Miscellaneous / / August 03, 2023
The artist presented the canvas during the Second World War.
Researchers from the University of Liege and the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium discovered a portrait of a woman underneath René Magritte's painting La Cinquième Saison ("The Fifth Season").
The latent image was revealed using infrared light. There is a pale yellow paint at the bottom of the canvas, which may indicate the light color of the model's hair. Her identity is still unknown, but scientists believe that this is the wife and muse of the surrealist Georgette (although she was a brown-haired woman). The woman worked as a saleswoman in an art supplies store where Magritte bought his paints. The couple married in 1922.
René Magriette was known as the author of witty and poetically enigmatic paintings.
When someone sees one of my paintings, they ask themselves a simple question: “What does this mean?” But that doesn't mean anything, because mystery doesn't mean anything either, it's unknowable.
René Magriette
Artist
La Cinquième Saison is painted in oil on canvas measuring 50.5 by 60 centimeters. It depicts two men in bowler hats holding framed paintings. The artist introduced her in 1943. The reason he painted over the portrait is unclear, but it is known that he often reused canvases due to financial difficulties.
Magriette died in 1967 at the age of 68. Georgette died in 1986, after her death she left seven paintings of her husband to the museum.
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