Magritte did not always focus his artistic vision on the works that many people often associate him with: isolated male figures adorned with bowler hats, smoking pipes with ironic captions, or ...

On the morning of May 19, minutes after SFMOMA’s René Magritte exhibit opened for a member preview, so many people flooded the fourth-floor entrance that a line formed. The newly arriving members ...

A painting by René Magritte is expected to sell for at least US$95 million at a Christie’s auction in November in New York. Titled L’empire des lumières, 1954, meaning “The Empire of Light,” the work ...

René Magritte's iconic painting, "Empire of Light," shattered auction records, selling for over $121 million. The sale highlighted a surge in the art market, with Magritte joining the ranks of artists ...

As a pillar of Surrealism, René Magritte‘s art challenges viewers’ perceptions of reality. The environments he constructed on canvas are meant to intrigue and confound viewers. The artist was born ...

A painting by the 'Master of Surrealism' Rene Magritte has smashed the auction record for any of his works by selling for an astonishing $121 million at a Christie's auction in New York on Tuesday.

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 ...

If any painter were built for virtual reality, it’s Rene Magritte. The Belgian artist’s surreal worlds–full of raining businessmen and oversized fruit and pipes that are not really pipes–just beg to ...

Photoshop tutorial showing how to make a digital painting of Rene Magritte's surreal oil painting, The False Mirror. Magritte ...

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Move over, Picasso, van Gogh and Warhol. With an inscrutable painting, the Belgian painter breaks a nine-figure threshold at Christie’s fall auction. By Scott Reyburn After the U.S. election, ...