It’s one of Modern art’s most famous images ... authority or whether he just needed to make a living. In the lean years after the war, Magritte and his brother even forged 100-franc notes.

A Rene Magritte painting was the top selling artwork at auction in 2024, achieving a price of more than $121 million. But it was a banana duct taped to a wall that stole the show in this year's ...

René Magritte's iconic painting, "Empire of Light," shattered auction records, selling for over $121 million. The sale highlighted a surge in the art market, with Magritte joining the ranks of ...

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.

In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. The works of Belgian artist René Magritte ...

Yet understanding his materials and techniques is critical to preserving Magritte's legacy. So in 2016, Defeyt and Francisca Vandepitte, Royal Museums senior curator of modern art, kicked off the ...