The Mysteries of the Horizon

The Mysteries of the Horizon

Artist	René Magritte
Year	1955
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	50 cm × 65 cm (19.69 in × 25.59 in)

The Mysteries of the Horizon (in French, Les mystères de l'horizon) (1955) is an oil on canvas painting by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte.

The painting depicts three seemingly identical men in bowler hats. They are in an outdoor setting at twilight. Though they appear to be sharing the same space each one also seems to exist in a separate reality. Each is facing a different direction. In the sky above each figure is a separate crescent moon.

Men in bowler hats appear frequently in Magritte's work starting with his 1926 painting The Musings of a Solitary Walker. They are represented as having undefined or identical personalities. Magritte himself is often seen wearing a bowler hat in photographs.

References

The Mystery of Magritte CD-ROM by Virtuo

René Magritte

Notable paintings	The Difficult Crossing (1926/1963) The Enchanted Pose (1927) The Menaced Assassin (1927) The Adulation of Space (1927-1928) The Empty Mask (1928) The Treachery of Images (1928–1929) 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 Listening Room (1952) Golconda (1953) The Empire of Lights (1954) The Mysteries of the Horizon (1955) The Telescope (1963) The Son of Man (1964) The Great War (1964)

Movement	Surrealism

Related articles	Magritte Museum Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts Western painting

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