In the 1920s, the bowler hat was ubiquitous and Magritte used the motif to represent the everyman; by the 1950s, the bowler hat had become less common and Magritte played with the idea that he was the ...

Though perhaps best known for his surrealist depictions of bowler hat-wearing men, Magritte spent a period of 15 years exploring the fleeting transition from day to night in landscape painting.