Le Domaine d'Arnheim (The Domain of Arnheim)

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 1962.

The title comes from one of Edgar Allan Poe's lesser-known stories. Magritte called it "the realization of a vision" that Poe would have liked.

Magritte mixes landscape painting with the eagle-shaped mountain crest and still life painting with the eagle's live little eggs. A wall separates us from the landscape: the viewer is an outsider excluded from all participation. Magritte explores the contradiction between the natural (the mountain, the eggs) and the artificial (the wall) that he believes to be "an expression of the affinity between the two"...