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Painting by René Magritte

The Portrait

Artist	René Magritte
Year	1935
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	73.3 cm × 50.2 cm (28⅞ in × 19⅞ in)
Location	Museum of Modern Art, New York

The Portrait is an oil on canvas painting by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte, from 1935.

It depicts an almost photo-realistic table setting with a slice of ham in the center, with an eye staring back at the viewer from the center of the ham.

This painting was once part of the private collection of the surrealist painter Kay Sage. In 1956 she donated it as a gift to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

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The Museum of Modern Art Provenance Research Project

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Paintings	List of paintings The Difficult Crossing (1926; 1963) Le Joueur Secret (1927) The Enchanted Pose (1927) The Menaced Assassin (1927) The Meaning of Night (1927) The Adulation of Space (1927–1928) The Empty Mask (1928) The False Mirror (1928) The Treachery of Images (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 Empire of Light (1949–1954) The Seducer (1950) The Listening Room (1952) Golconda (1953) The Good Example (1953) The Mysteries of the Horizon (1955) 16th September (1956) The Alarm Clock (1957) The Castle of the Pyrenees (1959) The Telescope (1963) The Son of Man (1964)
Museums	Magritte Museum (Brussels) René Magritte Museum (Jette)
Related	"Rene and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog after the War" (1983 song)

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