# @dalimuseum on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B-rt02bjXAZ
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34142769-dalimuseum-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-04-07T14:30:27.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Dalí Museum (@dalimuseum) — https://gondola.cc/dalimuseum

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We've decided to join the metmuseum's #curatortag and our curator Dirk is it! "Having been a long-time admirer of the works by Rene Magritte (initiated, no doubt, by the Magritte-esque cover of Styx’s The Grand Illusion album), it was many years before I had the opportunity to see his works in museums.  I first saw this painting at the  Art Institute of Chicago for the Magritte retrospective in 1992, and it literally took my breath away.  It was a great pleasure for me to coordinate the delivery and installation of this same work (and 77 others!) for the Midnight in Paris: 1929 exhibit at The Dali in 2019. 
To me Magritte is master of the double-take, and this painting is no exception – his images make you question reality and ‘the norm’, and are most often are the result of a dialogue between him and fellow surrealists.  The ‘reveal’ in this work is also fantastic – almost like a film montage it shows the reverse of the action (foot goes INSIDE shoe), and also shows the fragile contents of the shoes themselves." #DaliFromADistance #MusuemFromHome #TheDali #MidnightInParis #Curator
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René Magritte (Lessines, 1898 – Brussels, 1967)
The Red Model
[1935]Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Musée national d’art moderne – Centre de création industrielle
Purchase, 1975

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musuemfromhome, dalifromadistance, curatortag, thedali, midnightinparis, curator

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