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addition to fantastic elements, he displayed
a mordant wit, creating surrealist versions
of famous paintings, as in Madame Récamier de
David (1949, private collection), in which an
elaborate coffin is substituted for the reclining
woman in the famous portrait by Jacques Louis
David.
Magritte's work was first shown in the United
States in New York City in 1936 and again in
that city in two retrospectives, one at the
Museum of Modern Art in 1965 (U.S. tour, 1966),
and the other at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art in 1992. Magritte continued to work until
his health began to fail in 1965. Rene Magritte
died on August 15, 1967.
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