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Luxembourg + Co., a tony gallery that’s been putting on museum-like shows in New York and London since 2011, has outdone ...
Magritte’s fascination with the tobacco pipe predates his experiments with word and image, and it persisted through all his artistic reinventions. In 1920, fresh out of art school, Magritte ...
Paintings by Magritte and others were borrowed for “The Phoenician Scheme.” Safeguarding them amid the hot lights and chaos ...
René Magritte is best known for his Surrealist masterpieces like The Son of Man (1964), which bend reality and subvert expectations. However, the Belgian artist experimented with a variety of ...
René Magritte’s art is famously enigmatic: The Belgian Surrealist is best known for paintings like The Treachery of Images, a depiction of a smoking pipe with the caption that reads ...
A René Magritte painting depicting an eerily lit ... million estimate and smashing the auction record for the Surrealist artist’s work. As one of the largest paintings in a succession of ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. René Magritte was so successful in making images that confuse the mind that his art is embedded in popular culture. His outsized ...
A day after Sotheby’s tested the strength of the trophy market with its $65.5 million Claude Monet, rival Christie’s did one better—by auctioning off a $121.2 million René Magritte.
Magritte’s ‘L’empire des lumières’ most nearly captures her aesthetic philosophy in its balance and restraint,” Max Carter, Christie’s vice chairman of 20th and 21st century art, said ...