The Listening Room (La Chambre d'Écoute, 1952) is an oil on canvas painting by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte which is currently part of the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas.
[2] Both paintings feature identical (or near-identical) green apples, but place them in different rooms.
In the 1952 version, the room has wood flooring and a glass window with white trim.
In Elective Affinities (1933) an egg is pictured filling a birdcage, in The Tomb of the Wrestlers (1961) a red rose fills a room and in Personal Values (1951–52) common household objects such as a comb, a glass and a bar of soap dwarf the usual furniture in a bedroom.
The 1958 reproduction of the painting was used for the 1969 album cover of Beck-Ola by The Jeff Beck Group.