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“René Magritte: The Phantom Landscape,” at New York’s Luxembourg + Co. through July 12, asks us to put aside pipes, bowler hats, green apples, and clouds when we think of the Belgian ...
It was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art in New York from Man Ray in 1936, a close friend and collaborator of Magritte’s who had owned the painting since 1933. The Lovers (1928) ...
L’empire des lumieres by Rene Magritte (1956), auction estimate $6-8 million, on display at Christie’s in New York, on November 8, 2024. Photo: AAP/Stephen Smith ...
On Wednesday, January 29, at 9:15 p.m., Art Night devotes its evening on Rai 5 to one of the undisputed masters of surrealism, René Magritte. The documentary René Magritte: Day and Night, directed by ...
The Art Gallery of New South Wales presents over 100 works by the Belgian surrealist in a landmark exhibition exclusive to Australia, as part of the Sydney International Art Series 2024–25.
In the 1920s, the bowler hat was ubiquitous and Magritte used the motif to represent the everyman; by the 1950s, the bowler hat had become less common and Magritte played with the idea that he was the ...
The seminal 1954 painting had been valued at $95 million, and the previous record for a work by Magritte (1898-1967) was $79 million, set in 2022. Aim to see more clearly: The Lovers I by Rene ...
When Mica Ertegun passed away in December 2023, at the age of 97, the New York–based AD100 Hall of Fame designer left behind a legacy of worldly, thoughtfully edited interiors. So it’s not ...
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.
This was published 8 months ago Magritte’s sheer visual magic on show in AGNSW’s summer exhibition Joanna Mendelssohn November 2, 2024 — 5.30am Normal text size Larger text size Very large ...
The garment of adventure. The demon of perversity. An end to contemplation. The song of the storm. The plain of the air. A rare old vintage Picasso. The flavour of tears. The philosophical lamp. This ...