Le Plagiat (Plagiary)

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 1940.

A case of flowers acting as a window onto a landscape of grass and trees. Eggs in a nest representing the outside world invading the outdoors. Magritte painted "Plagiary" a month before the invasion of Belgium after the beginning of WW2 and instead of painting a world filled with darkness, Magritte attempted to create a ray of light.

As for the title, it implies a sense of copying and fraud. But then what is a representation except a form of plagiarism ? Magritte here combines the traditional floral still life with the landscape genre, creating a new form of plagiarism...!