This is a painting by René Magritte [1898-1967] called "La reconnaissance infinie" [Infinite Recognition], and created sometime around 1933. Thanks to a 1982 book by Reader's Digest, this image has been associated with a very strange theft indeed.
This copy of the image comes from the Christie's website [Link Here].
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