The Treachery of Images
René Magritte · 1929
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles · Founded 1961
Magritte's pipe that is not a pipe, and a 340-ton boulder you walk underneath. On Museum Row on Wilshire Boulevard, next door to the La Brea Tar Pits.
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The Treachery of Images
René Magritte · 1929
The Treachery of Images is a 1929 painting by Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. It is also known as This Is Not a Pipe, Ceci n'est pas une pipe and The Wind and the Song. It is on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Wrestlers
Thomas Eakins, 1899. Wrestlers is a name shared by three closely related 1899 paintings by American artist Thomas Eakins,. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) owns the finished painting (G-317), and the oil sketch (G-318). The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) owns a slightly smaller unfinished version (G-319). All three works depict a pair of nearly naked men engaged in a wrestling match. The setting for the finished painting is the Quaker City Barge Club (defunct), which once stood on Philadelphia's Boathouse Row.
Magdalen with the Smoking Flame
Georges de La Tour, 1640. Magdalene with the Smoking Flame is a c. 1640 oil-on-canvas depiction of Mary Magdalene by French Baroque painter Georges de La Tour. Two versions of this painting exist, one in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the other in the Louvre Museum in Paris. There are differences between these two, but they are very minor, for example the books on the table, and the shape of the flame.
Levitated Mass
Cliff Dwellers
George Bellows, 1913. Cliff Dwellers (1913) is an oil-on-canvas painting by George Bellows that depicts a colorful crowd on New York City's Lower East Side, on what appears to be a hot summer day. Its dimensions are 40+1⁄4 by 42+1⁄8 inches, and it is in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which acquired it in 1916.
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Katsushika Hokusai · 1830
The Great Wave off Kanagawa is a woodblock print by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai (1760–1849), created in late 1831 during the Edo period of Japanese history. The print depicts three boats moving through a storm-tossed sea, with a large, cresting wave forming a spiral in the centre over the boats and Mount Fuji in the background.
Artists
German · 1471–1528 · German Renaissance
Albrecht Dürer, sometimes spelled in English as Durer or Duerer, was a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance.
Japanese · 1760–1849 · Japonisme
Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. His woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji includes the iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa.
Artworks
Knight, Death, and the Devil
Albrecht Dürer · 1513
Blue Qur'an
1000
Sultan Barquq’s Qur’an
Ali ibn Muhammad al-Mukattib al-Ashrafi · 1370
Les Confidences Pastorales
François Boucher · 1745
Kameyama: Woman Dreaming of Omatsu, Gennojô, and Sodesuke
Utagawa Hiroshige
The Funeral Procession of Agamemnon
Louis Jean Desprez · 1787
Christ Preaching in the Temple
Jan Polack · 1480
Abraham and the Three Angels
Jan Polack · 1500
Portrait of a bearded man
1612
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Hours
Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 11am to 6pm. Friday 11am to 8pm. Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 7pm. Closed Wednesday. Confirm on www.lacma.org before you travel.
Admission
$30, or $25 for Los Angeles County residents with ID. Free for county residents on weekdays after 3pm.
Getting there
5905 Wilshire Boulevard.
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