The Son of Man (1964) by René Magritte
The size of the original painting is 116 x 89 cm (~46 x x35 inches)
"At least it hides the face partly. Well, so you have the apparent face,
the apple, hiding the visible but hidden, the face of the person. It's
something that happens constantly. Everything we see hides another
thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an
interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us.
This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of
conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the
visible that is present"
René Magritte about this painting
