because we all need to dream a little
Le masque vide (The Empty Mask) by René Magritte, 1928. Oil on canvas, 81.2 cm x 116.2 cm. National Museum, Wales. Currently on loan to the Tate Gallery in London.

From the National Museum website:


  In his essay Words and Images, published in 1929, the Belgian Surrealist Magritte observed that each image ‘suggests that there are others behind it’. Viewed through a freestanding frame of irregular shape, these images are a sky, a lead curtain festooned with sleigh bells, a house façade, a sheet of paper cut-outs, a forest and a fire. The title evokes the fear of the invisible which pervades the artist’s work and reflects the Surrealists’ fascination with the subconscious.

Le masque vide (The Empty Mask) by René Magritte, 1928. Oil on canvas, 81.2 cm x 116.2 cm. National Museum, Wales. Currently on loan to the Tate Gallery in London.

From the National Museum website:

In his essay Words and Images, published in 1929, the Belgian Surrealist Magritte observed that each image ‘suggests that there are others behind it’. Viewed through a freestanding frame of irregular shape, these images are a sky, a lead curtain festooned with sleigh bells, a house façade, a sheet of paper cut-outs, a forest and a fire. The title evokes the fear of the invisible which pervades the artist’s work and reflects the Surrealists’ fascination with the subconscious.