Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Visually, this is a very simple work of art. There are just two elements, both clearly rendered: a pipe, and a caption that reads Ceci n’est pas une pipe (This is ...

Born in 1898, René Magritte enjoyed an illustrious five-decade career, painting until his death aged just 68 in the late 1960s. He is one of the world’s most famous Surrealists, instantly recognizable ...

René Magritte, “Forethought” (1943), oil on canvas, Koons Collection (© Charly Herscovici, Brussels / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, all images courtesy San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) In ...

Major show of Belgian surrealist's work gives rock fans a chance to see painting that shares its name with the date the singer died ...

René Magritte, "Arlita / Chanson Lumineuse," sheet music cover (C. 1925). 13 1/4x10 1/2 inches, 33 1/2x26 3/4 cm. Many people are well aware of René Magritte’s Surrealist art with his erie figures, ...

The Mona Lisa is. Girl with a Pearl Earring is. Starry Night. You won't travel far down the list of art’s most recognizable images, however, before landing on Rene Magritte’s The Son of Man, on ...

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, “This is not a ...

Like the indelible dreams that the movement’s artists displayed on canvas, Surrealism refuses to die. Launched nearly a century ago, with its techniques long absorbed by mainstream media and ...

LONDON — A major work by surrealist painter René Magritte that hasn’t been shown in public for a quarter century could fetch 50 million pounds ($64 million) at auction next month. Christie’s auction ...

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, is “a ...

WHEN René Magritte was 13 years old, his mother drowned herself in a local river. When the body was recovered her face was found to be covered with her nightdress. No one knew whether she had ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Deborah Solomon MAGRITTE A Life By Alex Danchev with Sarah Whitfield Even people who do not ...