Five photographs, based on original silver gelatin prints, offer us an intimate view of the painter’s artistic practice. Carefully staged scenes show him in front of masterpieces such as Le Masque vide, L’Evidence éternelle, and La Tentation de l’impossible. In a fourth image, he poses with a study he used later while painting. And in the 1928 photograph entitled La Sainte Famille, René and Georgette gaze into the lens with amused expressions. He has a plaster bust in his arms, while his wife holds their little dog Loulou in her lap. They look as though they are part of the painting standing on the easel above them. 

The photographs in this edition are facsimiles based on silver gelatin prints that belonged to the artist’s archive. Each edition is numbered and validated by the Magritte Estate with an embossed seal.