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Painting by René Magritte

The Telescope

Artist	René Magritte
Year	1963
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	176.1 cm × 114.9 cm (69+5⁄16 in × 45+1⁄4 in)
Location	Menil Collection, Houston

The Telescope (French: Le Téléscope) is a 1963 oil on canvas painting by René Magritte.

The painting depicts a window through which a partly clouded blue sky can be seen. However, the right side of the window is partially open, revealing a black background where the viewer would expect to see a continuation of the clouds and sky.

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"Magritte, Rene: La lunette d'approche (The Telescope)".

v t e René Magritte
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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