Rene Magritte ~ “La cascade (The Waterfall)”, 1961

In earlier works, art and the outside world unite in a single reality, whereas here they are distanced from each other by what Magritte called ‘differences of a spatial order.’ Thus the interior forest encloses a painting of the exterior and the two are joined together…It was a painting that Magritte considered particularly successful (he described it as being ‘extraordinarily alive’) and he took the trouble to reproduce it in colour in the fifth issue of André Bosmans’s review, Rhétorique, together with a text by Marcel Lecomte" (Whitfield, no. 121).