Which surrealist artist is known for the painting 'The Son of Man'?

The surrealist artist known for the painting The Son of Man is René Magritte.

Magritte painted The Son of Man in 1964, near the end of his career. The oil painting shows a formally dressed man in a bowler hat standing before a low wall, with the sea and a cloudy sky behind him. A hovering green apple obscures most of his face, although one eye is visible above it.

The figure is generally described as a self-portrait, though the concealed face makes the identity deliberately incomplete. The painting exemplifies Magritte’s recurring interest in placing familiar objects into puzzling situations and questioning the difference between an object and its representation.

The Son of Man is sometimes confused with Magritte’s other famous works. The Treachery of Images features a pipe and the words “Ceci n’est pas une pipe,” while The Lovers shows two figures whose faces are covered by cloth. The Son of Man instead centers on the bowler-hatted figure and the green apple.