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 ...

‘La Valse hesitation,’ which has not been publicly seen since 1979, is expected to sell for between €10 and €15 million—the highest-ever estimate for a work of art at the French arm of the auction ...

René Magritte is best known for his Surrealist masterpieces like The Son of Man (1964), which bend reality and subvert expectations. However, the Belgian artist experimented with a variety of styles ...

Uncanny apples, pipes and mysterious floating bowler hats are some of the things that the surrealist painter René Magritte was best known for. From next week, you’ll be able to see several of his ...

A bowler-hatted man whose face is hidden by a floating green apple. A dollhouse bedroom occupied by a giant comb. A large boulder standing near a window overlooking the sea. These are the dreamlike, ...

This Is Still Not a Pipe: The Afterlife of Magritte review — an absolute joy - 4/5 The Gagosian has been transformed into a Lynchian curtained space for this Magritte exhibition ...

This Is Still Not a Pipe: Magritte's influence examined in hoot of show - 4/5 This show at the Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, ...

With his clever conundrums, the Belgian loved satirising both psychoanalysis and surrealism – and occasionally painted rubbish to annoy his family. What a dude!

All illustrators owe a debt to René Magritte (1898-1967) and to Ian Ballantine for publishing an affordable “trade paperback” on his work in the 1960s. Illustrators everywhere found their surrealist ...

This review of Magritte: A Life by Alex Danchev (Profile Books) was published in the January 2022 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. René Magritte is thought of as a ‘placid petit bourgeois ...

Dana Schutz, Ed Ruscha, Anna Weyant and more on how they fell for the Belgian painter — and why his visions feel even more ...