
The Son of Man
1964 · Private collection
Magritte called the floating apple a kind of self-portrait, about how much we want to see the thing that is being hidden.
★ 7.5

Magritte called the floating apple a kind of self-portrait, about how much we want to see the thing that is being hidden.

The girl is Ruby Bridges, walking into a New Orleans school in 1960 between four marshals whose faces Rockwell cut off at the shoulders.

Four flat hibiscus blossoms on green, silkscreened from an ordinary photograph and reproduced in any color, over and over, on demand.