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Painting by René Magritte

The Empty Mask

Artist	René Magritte
Year	1928
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	81.2 cm × 116.2 cm (32.0 in × 45+3⁄4 in)
Location	National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff

The Empty Mask is an oil on canvas painting by Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte, from 1928. The painting was purchased in 1973 and is on display in the National Museum of Wales, in Cardiff.

Magritte suggested in his essay Words and Images (1929) concerning this painting that each image represented "suggests that there are others behind it". The six images depicted in freestanding frame of irregular shape, are the sky, a lead curtain festooned with sleigh bells, a house façade, a sheet of paper cut-outs, a forest and a fire.

The title reflects the artists fascination with the subconscious.

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The Empty Mask Art UK

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Paintings	List of paintings The Difficult Crossing (1926; 1963) Le Joueur Secret (1927) The Enchanted Pose (1927) The Menaced Assassin (1927) The Meaning of Night (1927) The Adulation of Space (1927–1928) The Empty Mask (1928) The False Mirror (1928) The Treachery of Images (1929) On the Threshold of Liberty (1929/1937) The Voice of Space (1931) Elective Affinities (1933) The Human Condition (1933/1935) The Portrait (1935) Not to Be Reproduced (1937) Time Transfixed (1938) The Palace of Memories (1939) The Empire of Light (1949–1954) The Seducer (1950) The Listening Room (1952) Golconda (1953) The Good Example (1953) The Mysteries of the Horizon (1955) 16th September (1956) The Alarm Clock (1957) The Castle of the Pyrenees (1959) The Telescope (1963) The Son of Man (1964)
Museums	Magritte Museum (Brussels) René Magritte Museum (Jette)
Related	"Rene and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog after the War" (1983 song)

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