René Magritte loved tales of mystery, and the best approach to understanding the iconic artist’s life is as a mystery. So argues an insightful and broad-reaching new biography by the ...

The biography is informative on Magritte’s days at the Académie Royale in Brussels, where he studied under Constant Montald and took lessons with the versatile artist, illustrator and designer ...

René Magritte loved tales of mystery, and the best approach to understanding the iconic artist’s life is as a mystery. So argues an insightful and broad-reaching new biography by the late Alex ...

MAGRITTE A Life By Alex Danchev with Sarah Whitfield. Even people who do not recognize the name René Magritte are likely to recognize his bowler-hatted man, that solitary wanderer in a dark ...

The Surrealists talked a good picture, and René Magritte was more a visual punster than a virtuoso painter. His art, Alex Danchev writes in this thoroughly and gruesomely entertaining biography ...

This image, of two little boys absolutely spackled with goo, appears on page 11 of Alex Danchev’s new biography, Magritte: A Life, and would not leave my mind until I had turned the final one.It ...

Magritte: This Is Not a Biography Vincent Zebus and Thomas Campi. SelfMadeHero, $14.99 trade paper (72p) ISBN 978-1-910593-37-0 ...

A question asked repeatedly as a joke: How many Belgians can you name? Well, here is one: René Magritte, surrealist. Alex Danchev, author of Magritte: A Life, may not be a household name but is ...