René Magritte (1898-1967)

As regards the sun, I have found an answer: a grave. On the ground is a grave-stone and the sun illuminates the sky, the earth and the grave. The answer is of the present moment and may become inadequate in the future. Taking the sun as the starting point of the journey we are engaged upon, taking the sun as our origin, we cannot for the time being envisage any more disant conclusion to this journey than death. This is a present certainty, and as the title of the picture, the expresion 'The beyond' recovers an emotional content.

Magritte in a letter to Breton, June 1934