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You can, however, commission your own individually painted interpretation of this artwork. Each work is created by hand and re-imagined for its new owner, making it a unique artwork rather than a reproduction.
Commission price: dependent on size from AUD$10,000 to AUD$25,500
Completion: approximately 12 weeks
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Rene Magritte: The Magician (Self-portrait with four arms)
Rene Magritte painted this in 1952 ( and titled it The Magician (Self-Portrait with four arms). In my reimagined artwork, I added the blindfold to give it complexity.
Rene Magritte: The magician
The Magician (Self-portrait with four arms) is a 1952 surrealist oil painting by Belgian artist René Magritte, held in a private collection. It depicts the artist at a dining table, featuring four arms to simultaneously cut food, hold bread, and pour wine, creating a paradoxical sense of static movement.
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- Surrealist Subject: The painting features a simple, mundane scene—a meal—rendered extraordinary by the addition of four arms, highlighting Magritte’s focus on disrupting everyday reality.
- Symbolism: It reflects Magritte’s self-view as a “magician” who reveals the illusions of everyday life.
- Static Motion: The figure appears frozen in time yet busy with multiple actions at once, a theme Magritte described as balancing movement with its opposite.
- Production Details: The work is an oil on canvas created during his mature period in 1952.