René Magritte: The Empire of Light, oil on canvas. Series painted between 1953 and 1954.
- The Empire of Lights in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum;
- The Empire of Lights in the Museum of Modern Art;
- The Empire of Lights in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.
“What is represented in a picture is what is visible to the eye, it is the thing or the things that had to be thought of. Thus, what is represented in the picture are the things I thought of, to be precise, a nocturnal landscape and a skyscape such as can be seen in broad daylight. The landscape suggests night and the skyscape day. This evocation of night and day seems to me to have the power to surprise and delight us. I call this power: poetry”. R.Magritte