René Magritte / Lola de Valence / 20th centuryRené Magritte
Lola de Valence
20th century

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Creator Name: Magritte, René
Creator Nationality: European; Belgian
Creator Role: painter
Creator Dates/Places: 1898 - 1967
Gender: M
Creator Name-CRT: René Magritte
Title: Lola de Valence
View: front
Creation Start Date: 1900
Creation End Date: 1999
Creation Date: 20th century
Object Type: Paintings
Materials and Techniques: gouache on white wove paper
Dimensions: H.18-1/8 x W.14-7/8 in. (sheet)
Inscriptions: SIGNATURE; INSCRIPTIONS
AMICA Contributor: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Owner Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
ID Number: 91.132
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Patrick Butler
Copyright: ? C. Herscovici, Brussels / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Rights: http://www.arsny.com
Context:

Lola de Valence was one of a group of gouaches shown in Magritte's first one-man show in Paris in 1948. Disgruntled that it took the Parisian art world so long to appreciate his art, Magritte called these gouaches the "vache," or "cow" paintings, after their deliberately provocative style and content. The title of this work refers to a scandalous portrait of a Spanish dancer painted by the French artist Edouard Manet in 1862, and then immortalized in a poem by Charles Baudelaire. Magritte takes images from his own work of the 1930s, the naked woman leaning against a rock and a female torso, and arranges them in a cold and artificial way. Rather than being a painting about a woman, Lola de Valence is a parody on Magritte's own reputation as a painter of enigmatic nudes and the artificiality of the Surrealist encounter with the female body.


AMICA ID: MIA_.91.132
Component Measured: sheet
Measurement Unit: in
AMICA Library Year: 2000
Media Metadata Rights: ?The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

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