"L'Incendie" (The Fire) is a gouache work by Belgian Surrealist René Magritte that exemplifies his characteristic approach to disrupting visual logic and expectation. The painting depicts a figure engulfed in flames rendered with Magritte's characteristically precise, almost clinical technique, creating an unsettling contrast between the violent subject matter and the composed execution. As with much of Magritte's Surrealist work, the image presents an impossible or contradictory situation that challenges rational perception and invites viewers to question the nature of representation itself.