Untitled

Untitled

René Magritte

1965

graphite

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This sketch shows a person wearing a hat, but their face is covered by a cloudy shape that looks like a sky or fog. Behind them, a small house sits on a hill near a wavy line that could be water. The whole scene is drawn in pencil with lots of tiny marks. The cloud over the face is drawn with a technique called *stippling*—tiny dots packed together to make shapes. It’s like the artist erased the person’s face and replaced it with a sky. Try looking up *stippling* to see how artists create shadows and textures with dots.

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