Exhibition Dates
October 9 – December 13, 2025
Opening Night
Wednesday, October 8 | 6-8PM
Monday – Friday | 10AM to 6PM
Select Saturdays | 11AM to 6PM
Di Donna Galleries
744 Madison Ave, New York
(Between 64th and 65th Street)
René Magritte
L'ami intime, 1958
Oil on canvas
73 by 65 cm (28¾ by 25⅝ in.)
ON LOAN
© 2025 C. Herscovici, Brussels / ArtistsRights Society (ARS), New York
Claude Lalanne
Pain Pieds, 1971/2006–07
Patinated bronze
15.5 by 66 by 11 cm (6⅛ by 26 by 4⅜ in.)
ON LOAN
©2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
René Magritte
Colombe, 1961–62
Papier collé, watercolor and pencil on paper
42.8 by 30.8 cm (16⅞ by 12⅛ in.)
ON LOAN
© 2025 C. Herscovici, Brussels / ArtistsRights Society (ARS), New York
François-Xavier Lalanne
Poisson Paysage V, 2007
Bronze with green patina
188 by 308 by 79 cm (74 by 121¼ by 31⅛in.)
©2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
René Magritte
Les Travaux d'Alexandre, 1967
Bronze
Overall: 67.5 by 144 by 110 cm (26⅝ by56¾ by 43¼ in.)
ON LOAN
© 2025 C. Herscovici, Brussels / ArtistsRights Society (ARS), New York
François-Xavier Lalanne
Hippopotame I, 1968/98
Blue laminated molded polyester resinand brass
126 by 283 by 88 cm (49⅝ by 111⅜ by34⅝ in.)
©2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
René Magritte
L'Horizon, 1950
Oil on canvas
45.6 by 35.2 cm (18 by 13⅞ in.)
© 2025 C. Herscovici, Brussels / ArtistsRights Society (ARS), New York
René Magritte
L'Oiseau de Ciel, 1966
Oil on canvas
68.5 by 48 cm (27 by 18⅞ in.)
ON LOAN
© 2025 C. Herscovici, Brussels / ArtistsRights Society (ARS), New York
Claude Lalanne
Dos de Iolas
Copper
61.5 by 51 by 12 cm (24¼ by 20⅛ by 4¾ in.)
ON LOAN
©2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
René Magritte
Le Chœur des Sphinges, 1964
Oil on canvas
100.9 by 81.4 cm (39¾ by 32 in.)
© 2025 C. Herscovici, Brussels / ArtistsRights Society (ARS), New York
François-Xavier Lalanne
La Sauterelle, 1970
Porcelain, polished brass, steel
65.7 by 174.6 by 85.1 cm (25⅞ by 68¾ by 33½ in.)
ON LOAN
©2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
René Magritte
Le Séducteur, 1952
Gouache on paper laid down on card
14.8 by 17.4 cm (5⅞ by 6⅞ in.)
© 2025 C. Herscovici, Brussels / ArtistsRights Society (ARS), New York
François-Xavier Lalanne
Singe SII, 1992/99
Bronze with green patina
73.1 by 22.2 by 13.7 cm (28¾ by 8¾ by 5⅜ in.)
ON LOAN
©2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
René Magritte
Le Clair Obscur, circa 1953
Sanguine on paper
44.5 by 33.5 cm (17½ by 13¼ in.)
© 2025 C. Herscovici, Brussels / ArtistsRights Society (ARS), New York
Claude Lalanne
Choupatte, 2014/17
Bronze
57.5 by 63.5 by 63.5 cm (22⅝ by 25 by 25 in.)
©2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Exhibition Dates
October 9 – December 13, 2025
Opening Night
Wednesday, October 8 | 6-8PM
Monday – Friday | 10AM to 6PM
Select Saturdays | 11AM to 6PM
Di Donna Galleries
744 Madison Ave, New York
(Between 64th and 65th Street)
Di Donna and Ben Brown Fine Arts are proud to present Magritte and Les Lalanne: In the Mind’s Garden, a major exhibition opening in October 2025 at Di Donna’s Madison Avenue gallery. The exhibition brings together the visionary worlds of René Magritte, François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne (known collectively as Les Lalanne)—artists who did not merely depict the natural world but reimagined it as a fertile landscape of poetic foresight and surreal transformation.
In the Mind’s Garden is the first exhibition to place Magritte and Les Lalanne in direct dialogue. Featuring over 50 works of art - including paintings, works on paper, and sculpture - drawn from important private collections, it invites viewers into a world where nature is not fixed but fluid—shaped by vision, memory, and invention. In this garden, the boundaries between the natural and the surreal dissolve, and imagination is the ground from which all things grow.
Taking inspiration from Magritte’s 1936 painting La Clairvoyance, in which the artist paints a bird while contemplating an egg, the exhibition explores the idea of artistic perception as a generative force. For these artists, to see is not to replicate the visible, but to anticipate and reveal the unseen—to draw forth new realities from the raw material of the world.
Magritte’s dreamlike compositions bend logic with surgical precision, unsettling the boundary between reality and illusion. In parallel, Les Lalanne reconceive nature through sculpture: François-Xavier’s fantastical animals double as functional objects, while Claude’s intricate botanical forms blur the line between plant, body, and artifice. Their works enchant and provoke, rendering nature both tactile and transcendent—fragments of a garden grown from the imagination.
Their connection runs deeper than shared sensibility. All three artists were concurrently championed and represented by the legendary Greek-American gallerist Alexander Iolas in the 1960s, who recognized their rare ability to transform the real into the revelatory. Through Iolas’ sustained support, their work came to inhabit a space where mystery, playfulness, and metamorphosis converge.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated exhibition catalogue containing texts from leading scholars in Surrealism with a focus on Magritte and Les Lalanne.
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