The Enchanted Pose is a 1927 painting by René Magritte[1] depicting a side-by-side pair of identical female nudes in a bare interior. It has been lost since the 1930s.[2]
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| Artist | René Magritte |
| Year | 1927 (1927) |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
In 2013, technicians From MoMa examining Magritte paintings using x-ray fluorescence discovered fragments of the composition concealed under two compositions Magritte painted in the 1930s. One was The Portrait (1935) held at MoMa, the other one was The Red Model (1935) at Stockholm’s Moderna Museet.
Sometime between 1927 and the mid-1930s, Magritte had cut the painting into pieces and recycled the canvas, to be painted over. In 2016, a third fragment was identified under a painting entitled The Human Condition (1935) in the Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery. In 2017, it was announced that the fourth and final fragment was found under his work God is not a Saint (c. 1935–36), located in the Magritte Museum in Brussels.[3][4][5][6]
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