The artwork titled “Sheherazade” was created by René Magritte in 1950 in Brussels, Belgium. This painting belongs to the Surrealism art movement and is classified as a symbolic painting.
In the artwork, a delicate visage is formed by an intricate arrangement of luminous pearls, depicting a pair of blue, contemplative eyes and red, prominent lips. The ethereal face is suspended against a serene, sky-blue background, which also reveals an abstract landscape featuring a solitary round object on a flat surface and a distant structure resembling a castle perched on a hill. The composition is minimalist, yet imbued with symbolic elements and a dreamlike quality characteristic of Magritte’s surrealist influence. The artist’s signature can be seen in the top right corner, rendered in a subtle and elegant manner.
