Le Beau Monde (The Beautiful World)

This lithograph was printed and published in 2004 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 1962.

"Le Beau Monde" contains some of the best known elements of Magritte's iconography: the curtain, the apple and the sky, all placed on a plane. This painting is about juxtaposing opposites: natural & man-made, interior & exterior, concealing & revealing.