Theory & Practice, Michelle de Kretser's novel exploring the "messy gap" between art and life, has won one of the nation's ...

“This is not a pipe” is the wording below Magritte’s famous 1929 picture ‘The Treachery of Images’ and This is Not A Murder Mystery features the iconic Belgian artist and several of his ...

These are all slight variations on the same theme: a representation of a pipe and an inscription saying what it’s not. In a letter to a friend, Magritte explained that he painted the last of ...

but in 1970 he tried his hand at Magritte’s look and composed Mr. Apple, an illustration of a person whose entire head was a red (not green) apple. When this painting was put up for auction in ...

Magritte went on to create three similarly large canvases — including the one that sold Tuesday — that same year so as not to disappoint other collectors. When asked about the comparatively ...

A 1954 painting by René Magritte, L’empire des lumières ... But such ideas are not poetic. What is poetic is the visible image of the picture.” The artist became somewhat fixated on ...

An eerie nighttime streetscape below a pale blue daytime sky by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte sold for $ ... a telephone bidder whose identity was not disclosed. The fall auctions in ...

In the absence of any overt symbols or motifs (such as a pipe, bowler hat ... inviting us inside. René Magritte’s L’empire des lumières (The Empire of Light), executed in 1954, is a pristine ...

It shows a man with his nose growing into his pipe ... is not the one in the grave. The Philosophical Lamp (La lampe philosophique), 1936.Credit: The Belgian artists who exhibited what Magritte ...