<Tr> <Th> Location </Th> <Td> Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California </Td> </Tr> <P> The Treachery of Images (French: La trahison des images (la tʁaizɔ̃ dez imaʒ), 1928--29, sometimes translated as The Treason of Images) also known as This Is Not a Pipe and The Wind and the Song, is a painting by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte . </P> <P> The picture shows a pipe . Below it, Magritte painted, "Ceci n'est pas une pipe .", French for "This is not a pipe ." </P> <P> The famous pipe . How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture' This is a pipe', I'd have been lying! </P>

The reason that magritte titled this work the treachery of images is because