René Magritte's "Autoportrait" is a colored pencil work on paper that exemplifies the Belgian Surrealist's characteristic exploration of identity and representation. The work presents the artist's face rendered in Magritte's precise, realistic style, yet incorporates the dreamlike and paradoxical elements typical of Surrealist practice. Like much of Magritte's oeuvre, the self portrait invites viewers to question the nature of artistic representation and the relationship between the image and the subject it depicts.