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René Magritte · 1927

The Menaced Assassin

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A nude woman lies bloodied on a couch while a well-dressed man in a dark suit leans to listen to a gramophone, two men in bowler hats with a club and a net waiting on either side and three faces watching from a balcony, snowy mountains in the doorway beyond. Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Up to 31.5 × 24 in · landscape

Size

Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

Format & finish

Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

21″16″

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Materials & quality

›Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

›Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

›Posters

Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

›Faithful to the source

Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

The story of The Menaced Assassin

The main subject is a blood-smeared nude woman on a couch. The title's assassin is a well-dressed man, ready to leave with his coat and hat on a chair beside his bag, who is delayed by the sound of music from a gramophone while two men armed with a club and a net wait in the foyer to ensnare him and three more watch from a balcony. The picture dates from 1927 and is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

René Magritte

René François Ghislain Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist known for his depictions of familiar objects in unfamiliar, unexpected contexts, which often provoked questions about the nature and boundaries of reality and representation. His imagery has influenced pop art, minimalist art, and conceptual art.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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