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.

MAGRITTE A Life By Alex Danchev with Sarah Whitfield. Even people who do not recognize the name René Magritte are likely to recognize his bowler-hatted man, that solitary wanderer in a dark ...

You won't travel far down the list of art’s most recognizable images before landing on Rene Magritte’s The Son of Man, on display now through October 28 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Luxembourg + Co., a tony gallery that’s been putting on museum-like shows in New York and London since 2011, has outdone itself in their 57th Street space in Manhattan. The Luxembourg part is a ...

Her face was rumored to be covered by her dress, inspiring several works by Magritte in which his sitters’ faces are obscured. This bleak theory, though, is largely considered to be little more ...

The face of a woman found beneath layers of paint in "La cinquième saison" (1943) could be that of the Surrealist artist's wife, Georgette Magritte.

A rare painting from René Magritte’s famous “L’empire des lumières” series is estimated to sell for more than $95 million at Christie’s New York this fall, a sum that would break the ...

A day after Sotheby’s tested the strength of the trophy market with its $65.5 million Claude Monet, rival Christie’s did one better—by auctioning off a $121.2 million René Magritte ...

Magritte Masterpiece Featuring a Floating Baguette Goes to Auction ... The image of a man in a bowler hat with his face obscured is a recurring motif throughout Magritte’s work.

A day after Sotheby’s tested the strength of the trophy market with its $65.5 million Claude Monet, rival Christie’s did one better—by auctioning off a $121.2 million René Magritte.

A rare painting from René Magritte’s famous “L’empire des lumières” series is estimated to sell for more than $95 million at Christie’s New York this fall, a sum that would break the ...