L'Art de la Conversation (The Art of Conversation)

This lithograph was printed and published in 2010 in our Art-Lithographies workshop in Paris using 100% cotton 300 g/m² BFK Rives paper. Artwork entirely made in France: from the production of the paper in Arches in the Vosges department, to the traditional lithographic printing process, one drawing for each different color, one color per press run.

The lithograph was authorized, supervised and validated by the ADAGP (Society of Authors in the Graphic and Plastic Arts) and by Mr. Charly Herscovici, President of the Magritte Foundation, Chairman of the Magritte Museum and unique representative of the Magritte Succession.

Painted by René Magritte in 1950.

Magritte started introducing words into his paintings in the late 20's. The cut-off in the back section of the water spells "Amour" or "Love". Two flirting swans, used as a metaphor for love, are floating on the water.

The word "Amour" repeats the image. Both the word and the image are means of representation which illustrates Magritte's fundamental concept: art is a representation of an image but never the image itself.