audio guide

Audio guide

Learn more about the art at The Nordic Watercolour Museum.

The artist Magritte painting by an easel

Welcome to our media guide! Instead of a traditional audio guide, we have created in-depth material that you can both watch and listen to. In the videos below, you'll meet our art educators, Johan Hildingsson and Jonte Nynäs, as they tell more about selected parts of the exhibition. At the bottom of the page you will find a map of the exhibition halls and the works mentioned in the clips.

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Want to listen in Swedish? Click here to find the Swedish audio guide.

ROOm 1

An introduction to Magritte and the exhibition

We look at the work titled 'Paysage', which René Magritte created early in his career, in 1920 © Bildupphovsrätt, Stockholm 2022

We examine René Magritte's work 'Nocturne' from 1925 © Bildupphovsrätt, Stockholm 2022

In the clip, we take look at Magritte's work 'L'Éloge de la dialectique' from 1936, as well as sketches and similar motifs © Bildupphovsrätt, Stockholm 2022

ROOm 2

The motif from 'La Trahison des Images' (The Betrayal of Images, oil painting from 1929) appears in many variations during Magritte's career. Here is a poster for a shop window from 1952 © Bildupphovsrätt, Stockholm 2022

ROOm 3

Studio Dongo was the name of the advertising agency that Magritte and his brother founded. We look at some of the advertising illustrations designed by René Magritte © Bildupphovsrätt, Stockholm 2022

Did you know that Magritte was an art forger? Here is a work, painted by René Magritte in 1944, which resembles Titian's work 'Flora' and 'Woman with a mirror' (both from approx. 1515) © Bildupphovsrätt, Stockholm 2022

ROOm 4

In this clip, we learn more about the works 'Le plaisir '(1946), 'Le Prince charmant' (1948) and 'Flûte' (1948) © Bildupphovsrätt, Stockholm 2022

ROOm 5

In 1926, Magritte creates the first version of the work 'Le Jockey Perdu'. Here, we look at a gouache from 1942 © Bildupphovsrätt, Stockholm 2022

1964 René Magritte creates the painting 'La bataille de l´Argonne', which we hear more about in this clip © Bildupphovsrätt, Stockholm 2022

We learn more about a recurring motif in Magritte's work as we look at 'L'homme et la forêt' (ca. 1965), 'Golconde' (1953, gouache), 'Golconde' (1953, oil) and '[La Nuit] ( 1963?) © Bildupphovsrätt, Stockholm 2022

Map of the exhibition halls, with markings where the soundtracks are recommended to be heard

René Magritte

The laboratory of ideas

The guide is part of the exhibition Magritte: A Lab of Ideas. Click below to read more about the exhibition.