Which side has been taken & pressed upon the other one? Maybe with another artist it might be easy to determine — clean lines, symmetry, a space echoing what has been taken away from it — but Magritte rarely adheres to the strict guidelines for anything, & decalcomania is no except- ion. The curtain behind, in front of; the horizons evenly aligned but not the beach; one shoulder sloping more. En plein air the man blocks out the sea. The curtains ex- pose it as if he wasn't there.
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