Man with Bowler Hat (Magritte)

L’homme au chapeau melon (1964)

This portrait of a man with the well-known bowler hat can be seen as a variation on ‘’The Son of Man’’, where the face of the man is hidden by an apple. Magritte said about this:

‘Behind everything we see, something else is hiding. We always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in the hidden and what the visible doesn’t show us. This interest can evoke such strong feelings that you could say it is a battle between the visible which is hidden and the apparent visible’.

This is a sculpture of 16 cm high after the painting of Magritte.