On the Threshold of Liberty (in French, Au seuil de la liberté) refers to two oil on canvas paintings by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte.
The work depicts a large room with the walls paneled with different scenes or windows.
Each panel reveals a different subject: a sky, fire, wood, a forest, the front of a building, an ornamental pattern, a female torso and a strange metallic texture featuring spherical bells (a common Magritte element).
The original painting was completed in 1929 and is part of the collection at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.
[2] For this version, the orientation was changed from horizontal to vertical leading to an increase in the area of the room depicted.