"The painting's subject, a suburban villa beside a canal, looks humdrum enough until you notice that it's night in the lower half but bright daylight higher up."
"By contrast with the exhibitionism of Dali or the roguery of Picasso, he camouflaged himself as a bourgeois provincial, wore a tie when painting, and used his kitchen as a studio."
"The beaming blue sky that coexists with nocturnal gloom suggests the way that ideas generate a strange radiance inside a shuttered head and mysteriously glow behind the sealed windows."
"Rather than accounting for the contradiction, Di Donna reverted to the lucre-loving lingo of the art market and attributed the record price to the brand recognition of Magritte."
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