Ceci n´est pas une pipe - but where is Magritte´s pipe?

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Dear brothers of briar,

I wouldn´t have thought, that this little inquiry would be that difficult, but so far it turned out to be quite hard to find out something about the following pipe.

photography by Michiel Hendryckx 2010
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Does anyone of you know who exactly has been fabricating that famous shoe-pipe René Magritte once owned? I´d also be interested in the whereabouts or any other information concerning this pipe. I´ve been already trying to contact the photographer who shot this picture, regrettably without any success. I´ll also try to find someone who could be knowing something about this subject at the Magritte foundation.
But maybe there´s a pipe-aficionado around here who could help me out?

Thanks in advance and kind regards
Thilo

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Very interesting, Thilo. Maybe the person to ask is Giancarlo Guidi from Ser Jacopo pipes. He has an art background and is obviously a pipemaker. He did an entire series of art-inspired pipes from some of Margitte's paintings. If anyone knows the answer to your question, I'd put my money on him. I believe he lives and works in Pesaro, Italy.

The cartoon is great! Thanks for posting it.

Bonne chance!

P.S. Did you notice that the stem on "The Shoe Pipe" looks virtually new?

 

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Thank you John, and please forgive me if this sounds corrective, but I think it´s on the contrary a very helpful post. I´ll try to contact Mr. Guidi and keep this forum updated if there´s any progress.

[…] Did you notice that the stem on "The Shoe Pipe" looks virtually new? […]

There´s a bigger version of the photography here. It looks to me as if that stem shows apparently traces of oxydation and it did not seem to be new to me at all. Why did you think it appears to be new? Did I fail to see something?

Kind regards
Thilo

 

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I think its the lighting, makes every thing look shiney and new.

 

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Thank you John, and please forgive me if this sounds corrective, but I think it´s on the contrary a very helpful post. I´ll try to contact Mr. Guidi and keep this forum updated if there´s any progress.

[…] Did you notice that the stem on "The Shoe Pipe" looks virtually new? […]

There´s a bigger version of the photography here. It looks to me as if that stem shows apparently traces of oxydation and it did not seem to be new to me at all. Why did you think it appears to be new? Did I fail to see something?

Kind regards
Thilo

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Like John said, it looks a bit shiny for an older pipe. You'd expect to see more oxidation. But maybe some one cleaned it up.

Let us know what you find out. I'd be really interested if Guidi comes up with anything.

 

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