The Meaning of Night (painting)

The Meaning of Night

Artist	René Magritte
Year	1927
Type	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	139 cm × 105 cm (55 in × 41 in)
Location	Menil Collection, Houston

The Meaning of Night is a painting by the Belgian Surrealist René Magritte. Painted in 1927, it is an oil painting on canvas with dimensions 139 cm by 105 cm and is in the Menil Collection, Houston.

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Menil Collection

René Magritte

Notable paintings	The Difficult Crossing (1926/1963) The Menaced Assassin (1927) The Adulation of Space (1927-1928) The Empty Mask (1928) The Treachery of Images (1928–1929) On the Threshold of Liberty (1929/1937) The Voice of Space (1931) Elective Affinities (1933) The Human Condition (1933/1935) The Portrait (1935) Not to be Reproduced (1937) Time Transfixed (1938) The Palace of Memories (1939) The Son of Man (1946) The Listening Room (1952) Golconda (1953) The Empire of Lights (1954) The Mysteries of the Horizon (1955) The Telescope (1963) The Great War (1964)

Movement	Surrealism

Related articles	Magritte Museum Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts Western painting

Wikimedia	Magritte at Wiktionary Magritte at Wikibooks Magritte at Wikiquote Magritte at Wikisource Magritte at Commons Magritte at Wikinews

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