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1928 – June 1930, René Magritte, Brussels June 1930 – 1933, E. L. T. (Edouard Léon Théodore) Mesens, Brussels, purchased from the artist 1933 – 1936, Man Ray, acquired from E. L. T. Mesens 1936, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, purchased from Man Ray. Provenance research is a work in progress, and is frequently updated with new ...
May 24, 2024 · René Magritte (born November 21, 1898, Lessines, Belgium—died August 15, 1967, Brussels) was a Belgian artist, one of the most prominent Surrealist painters, whose bizarre flights of fancy blended horror, peril, comedy, and mystery. His works were characterized by particular symbols—the female torso, the bourgeois “little man,” the ...
The Treachery of Images. The Son of Man. The Human Condition. Golconda. The Menaced Assassin. Movement. Surrealism. This is a list of the works of Belgian painter René Magritte (21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967), a key surrealist painter known for the wittiness of his work. [1]
René Magritte was a Belgian artist and one of the most enduringly influential members of the Surrealist movement. Best known for his illusionistic images that challenged the viewer’s preconceptions of reality, Magritte’s Surrealist paintings are clever, witty, and ironic—his most popular being The Treachery of Images (This is Not a Pipe) (1929).
Media. 1-20 out of 372 LOAD MORE. List of all 372 artworks by Rene Magritte. Go to Artist page.
Seeking to make the familiar unfamiliar, René Magritte used his art to question the nature of appearances. He devised a number of strategies—displacements and transformations—that unsettle the balance between nature and artifice, truth and fiction, and reality and surreality.
Rene Magritte was born in 1898, to a wealthy manufacturer father. In 1912, his mom was found drowned in the River Sambre. She had committed suicide, and the family was publicly humiliated because of it. From 1916 to 1918, Rene decided to study at the Academie des Beaux-Art, which was located in Brussels. He left the school, because he thought ...
