René Magritte: “La voix du sang” (2004), Limited edition color lithograph

"A picture is not to be confused with something you can touch. Can you pack my pipe? Of course not! It is only a representation. If I had written on my picture, 'This is a pipe,' I would have been lying. The image of a slice of jam is certainly not something edible," the Belgian artist René Magritte, one of the most famous representatives of Surrealism, once said about his art. His paintings possess a dreamlike enigmatic quality, even though they mostly depict everyday objects. Magritte drew on a personal repertoire of recurring subjects such as the apple, the pipe, the bowler hat, the curtain, the dove, and the blue sky with white clouds.