In the 1940s, the artist went through a two-year “Renoir period.” For example, A Stroke of Luck (1945), ... The Lovers, René ...

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 ...

MAGRITTE A Life By Alex Danchev with Sarah Whitfield. ... as he and his two younger brothers slept, ... as in his much-reproduced “The Lovers II” (1928), ...

Two sketches on letters written by surrealist Rene Magritte to poet Colinet. Photo by Tim Ireland/PA Images via Getty Images. This isn’t just a lawyer’s over-literal reading.

Two other Magritte works were included in the sale: The paintings “La cour d’amour” and “La Mémoire,” which sold for $10.53 million and $3.68 million, respectively.

A painting by Belgian surrealist master René Magritte has fetched 3.4 million euros (£2.3m) at auction. The work, L'Oiseau de Ciel (Sky Bird), was regarded as the most important Magritte painting to ...

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 .