Le Faux Miroir (The False Mirror)

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 1935.

"Le Faux Miroir" is a painting that sees as much as it itself is seen. The viewer both looks through the eye, as through a window, and is looked at by it.

Magritte challenges us here by questioning what we see and what we think we know. Is the sky a reflection of what the eye is seeing or is the eye a bridge to an alternate reality ? In the end, we are left wondering: do we create our environment or are we merely the ones created...?