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Magritte's "La Trahison des Images" ("The Treachery of Images") (1928-9) or "Ceci n'est pas une pipe". Sometimes translated as "The Betrayal of Images" By René Magritte, 1898-1967. The work is now owned by and exhibited at LACMA.

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Image taken from a University of Alabama site, "Approaches to Modernism": [1]

[edit] Fair use for René Magritte and for Surrealism

The image linked here is claimed to be used under fair use as:

The artwork is only being used for informational purposes.
Its inclusion in the article adds significantly to the article because it shows the most famous work by this artist, illustrates his technical work, and gives probably the most famous example of representational surrealism.
This is a reproduction of an old piece of art (namely, 1928-1929).

Tempshill 22:48, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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