René Magritte is best known for his Surrealist masterpieces like The Son of Man (1964), which bend reality and subvert expectations. However, the Belgian artist experimented with a variety of ...

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 ...

René Magritte is renowned for his humorous yet enigmatic art, foremost of which is the iconic bowler-hatted man. But despite his significant contribution to Surrealism – and the fame of his ...

Magritte was known to paint new works over older ones on occasion. In 2013, researchers uncovered one portion of The Enchanted Pose , a Magritte work that had been missing since the 1930s.

The Lovers, René Magritte, 1928 Art Gallery of New South Wales “Everything we see hides another thing; we always want to see what is hidden by what we see,” Magritte once said .