LITO Masters, in partnership with the Musee Magritte Museum, is proud to offer two highly rendered prints after original paintings from the museum’s permanent collection. The sale of these works benefits the Musée Magritte Museum, whose mission centers on the preservation and advancement of René Magritte’s aesthetic and cultural legacy. The Musée Magritte Museum houses the largest collection of the artist’s works worldwide, representing his prolific production across mediums. It also provides researchers with access to an extensive archive of materials relating to the artist’s practice and life. Today the museum continues to honor the legacy of Magritte and the surrealist movement by mounting exhibitions that celebrate visual dialogues between the art of the 20th and 21st centuries.
For the Drop, the museum selected L’empire des lumieres (1954) and Le retour (1940), which feature the artist’s most recognizable iconography and highlight his brilliant ability to turn seemingly ubiquitous scenes into impossible scenarios that defy reality. Under his masterful brush, a bird in flight seems carved from the sky itself and a serene street is caught simultaneously between day and night. Magritte’s L’empire des lumieres series, executed over 20 years from the 1940s-1960s, is amongst the artist’s most sought after works, with a painting from the group setting the auction record for the artist in 2024.
L’empire des lumieres, 1954-2025
43 7/8 x 34 3/8 in. (111.4 x 87.3 cm)
Le retour, 1940-2025
19 1/8 x 24 1/8 in. (48.5 x 61.3 cm)
Each an edition of 50
Medium: LITO HI-RND© print on paper within an aluminum frame
Price: $2,000 (Le retour); $2,500 (L’empire des lumieres)
