Elective Affinities (painting)
- Elective Affinities (painting)
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title=Elective Affinities
artist=René Magritte
year=1933
type=Oil on canvas
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"Elective Affinities" (1933) is a painting by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte.
This painting depicts a caged egg under a stand, its title owing to the book "Elective Affinities" by Johann von Goethe.
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