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 ...

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 ...

Celebrated Belgian surrealist René Magritte (1898-1967) was famously opaque. His public image—the average man in suit and hat, dwelling in the suburban anonymity of Brussels—seemed designed to deflect ...

René Magritte loved tales of mystery, and the best approach to understanding the iconic artist’s life is as a mystery. So argues an insightful and broad-reaching new biography by the late Alex Danchev ...

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Even if you haven’t visited a museum in a few years, the odds are good that you’ve come across one of René Magritte’s conceptually winking artworks recently. They pop up everywhere, from dorm-room ...

A 1954 painting by René Magritte, L’empire des lumières, has just sold for $121.2 million. The painting surpassed its $95 million estimate at Christie’s New York this week, making it the first ...

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 ...

This image, of two little boys absolutely spackled with goo, appears on page 11 of Alex Danchev’s new biography, Magritte: A Life, and would not leave my mind until I had turned the final one. It ...

René Magritte loved tales of mystery, and the best approach to understanding the iconic artist’s life is as a mystery. So argues an insightful and broad-reaching new biography by the late Alex Danchev ...