René Magritte - Black Magic

Black Magic is the title of a series of paintings depicting the artist's beloved wife, Georgette, which are a hymn to her beauty but also a provocation: the beloved's torso takes on the colors of the sky, in a spell of black magic that transforms her into a woman half celestial and half terrestrial. Who, if not she, the painter's muse, could have surrendered to such a spell?

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