Photos By Gail
Long before luxury fashion houses were commissioning artists to redesign bottles and packaging, René Magritte was quietly turning an ordinary wine bottle into a work of Surrealist sculpture.
Created in 1955, Femme Bouteille (Woman Bottle) transforms the curved form of a glass bottle into the elongated figure of a nude woman. Rather than simply painting an image onto the surface, Magritte cleverly incorporated the shape of the bottle itself into the composition, allowing the object to become the body. The result is elegant, slightly strange, and unmistakably Magritte.
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