Today would've been Magritte's 110th birthday. The Google homepage has an homage to the Belgian surrealist painter, a combination of the works The Son of Man and Golconda.
I've been attracted to his work for many years and have a reproduction of The Son of Man in my office and a lovely little Golconda magnet on the 'fridge.
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