The hot new exhibit at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art offers 70 works by Surrealist master Rene Magritte ... A 1955 gouache-on-paper version of Magritte’s “Golconda,” often called ...

Back to the primary man in question: The breadth of Magritte’s work on display is impressive, but this exhibit is missing some of the painter’s greatest hits, including “Golconda” (1953 ...

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 ...

The great surrealist René Magritte learnt his craft in advertising, an industry on which he, in turn, has had a powerful influence. Alastair Sooke explores his unique life and legacy .

Then the curtain rises on a screen projected with an image of the cookie-cutter “raining” men from Magritte’s famous 1953 painting Golconda. The image draws a laugh from the audience, though the ...

René Magritte is best known for his Surrealist masterpieces like The Son of Man (1964), which bend reality and subvert ...

Rene Magritte’s Golconda (Golconde), 1953, from The Menil Collection, Houston. Credit: Paul Hester. Now the first retrospective of the Belgian artist ever held in Australia is coming to the Art ...

Rene Magritte (holding a schipperke) and his wife Georgette Berger. | Apic/GettyImages. In a 1965 radio interview, Magritte said: “At least it hides the face partly.

Golconda, René Magritte, 1953 Paul Hester. René Magritte is best known for his Surrealist masterpieces like The Son of Man (1964), which bend reality and subvert expectations. However ...