Queen Paola and King Albert of Belgium attend the inauguration of the Magritte Museum on May 20, 2009, in Brussels. “L’empire des lumières,” which depicts a home and surrounding trees in the darkness ...

A René Magritte painting depicting an eerily lit streetscape sold for more than $121 million at a Christie’s auction in New York on Tuesday –– surpassing its $95 million estimate and smashing the ...

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 ...

The underlying image in René Magritte's "La cinquième saison" (1943) (photo courtesy Royal Museum of Fine Arts) A team of researchers has discovered the face of a woman peering out from beneath ...

LONDON — A major work by surrealist painter René Magritte that hasn’t been shown in public for a quarter century could fetch $64 million at auction next month. Christie’s auction house announced ...

What started as a mild dislike for René Magritte quickly became admiration. Once German artist Raphaëlle Martin started to animate the Surrealist Belgian’s paintings, he saw how completely dynamic ...

René Magritte’s pipe is not a pipe. It’s a painting of a pipe, a representation rather than the real thing. You can’t stuff tobacco into it, as Magritte once said. That concept is critical toward ...

Works by René Magritte, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí, Kay Sage, Herbert Bayer and Roberto Matta, Saturday through Jan. 3, Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., $12-$18.50, $5 FAC members with free return ...

If any painter were built for virtual reality, it’s Rene Magritte. The Belgian artist’s surreal worlds–full of raining businessmen and oversized fruit and pipes that are not really pipes–just beg to ...

Ever since the birth of the advertising industry in the late 19th century, there has been a great deal of overlap between publicity and fine art. Ad agencies must come up with eye-catching campaigns, ...