Louis Scutenaire (1905 - 1987)
According to the Wiki on Golconda , Scutenaire gave Magritte the idea for the title: Golconda (in French: Golconde ). Supposedly one of the larger "raining men" in the painting (I could never blow it up to pinpoint which one) has Scutenaire's face. *** Life Louis Scutenaire is chiefly remembered as a central figure in the Belgian Surrealist movement, along with René Magritte , Paul Nougé , Marcel Lecomte and his own wife Irène Hamoir . He studied law at the Free University of Brussels (now split into the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel ) and was a criminal lawyer from 1931 to 1944. In 1926 he discovered surrealism and was a primary contributor to the Revue surréaliste . He was sympathetic to communism during the 1930s and 1940s but as the truth about Joseph Stalin 's regime became more apparent, he grew disenchanted with it and became an anarchist . After the Second World War he became a civil servant in the...
