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In a photograph, this artist poses next to his painting Le Barbare, a work drawing inspiration from the French crime-fiction villain Fantômas. This artist parodied works like Manet’s Le Balcon and David’s Madame Recamier by replacing human figures with coffins in the series Perspectives. (15[1])Another (15[1])Fantômas-inspired work shows two men, one holding a club and the other a net, waiting to ambush a figure standing beside a (*) gramophone. This man depicted himself painting a bird while using an unhatched egg as a reference in the painting Clairvoyance. This artist of The Menaced Assassin painted hundreds of identically dressed men raining from the sky in Golconda. In a work by this artist, a hovering green apple (10[1])obscures the (10[1])face of a man in a bowler hat. For 10 points, name this Belgian surrealist painter of The Son of Man. ■END■

ANSWER: René Magritte [or René François Ghislain Magritte]
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