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Magritte was born on November 21, 1898, in the town of Lessines, Belgium. He was a Surrealist who used out of place and out of proportion imagery to provoke thought.
His accessible and vivid Surrealism caught on in the 1960s and his works (or variations on them) were popularized as album covers for such artists as Jeff Beck, Jackson Browne and Styx. |
René Magritte Works Online
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Original works by René Magritte available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Guggenheim Museum, New York City 2 works online
Magritte Museum, Brussels, Belgium The major new museum associated with the Royal Museums of Fine Arts
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Museum of Modern Art, New York City Includes biographical information about the artist
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Les Amants [The lovers]
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Perspective: Madame Récamier by David
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice NEW!
Renée Magritte Museum, Brussels, Belgium A smaller museum located in the house where Magritte lived and worked for 24 years
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French) Many works online
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Rene Magritte at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW! (Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff The Empty Mask, 1928
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, UK The Flavour of Tears
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires (partly in Spanish)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, New York Flash slideshow; Click "Works on Paper" and navigate to work #24
Indiana State University Art Collection
Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University The Last Jockey, gouache and collage, 1926
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany The Empty Mask, 1928
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 5 works online
MUMOK - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna (You need to click the "right" arrow fourteen times)
Museo del Territorio Biellese, Biella, Italy (in Italian) L'épreuve du sommeil
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Le Modèle Rouge III, 1937
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Les merveilles de la nature (The Wonders of Nature)
Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project 4 works by Magritte
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia In praise of dialectics
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh Les Bijoux indiscretes, 1963
Norwich Museums, England La Condition Humaine
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma L'Introuvable, 1964
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Portland Museum of Art, Maine Click thumbnails #5 and #6 for paintings by Magritte
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid (in Spanish)
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Scheringa Museum voor Realisme, Spanbroek, Netherlands (Click on the artwork titles, not the thumbnails)
State Museums of Berlin Gaspard de la nuit, 1965
State Museums of Florence, Italy The Happy Donor, 1966
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran Le Chemin du Ciel
The Albertina, Vienna The Enchanted Spot, 1953
The Menil Collection, Texas L'empire des lumiéres (The Dominion of Light), 1954
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid (Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image) La clef des champs, 1936
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Flemish Art Collection, Belgium Perspective II, Manet's Balcony, 1950
Flemish Art Collection, Belgium L'attentat (The Assault), 1932
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Rene Magritte at The Art Renewal Center 2 works online
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bert Christensen's Cyberspace Home
Rene Magritte at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
Olga's Gallery
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW! Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
The ArtFile
The Halter Collection 4 paintings online
USC Annenberg School for Communication
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Miscellaneous Sites:
René Magritte Foundation
Dickinson Agents and Dealers in Fine Art, London, UK -- Notable past sales
s u r r e a l i s t . c o m Philosophy in the Boudoir The Man in the Bowler Hat
The Legacy Project "A gathering place for people interested in the enduring legacies of the many violent traumas of the 20th century"
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Rene Magritte Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum) Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Artnet Magazine The Interpretation of Dreams
Brain-Juice - 20th Century Biographies
Multimedia:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Interactive Flash feature: Rene Magritte's Les Valeurs personnelles
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Interactive Flash feature: Magritte and Surrealism
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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The Portable Magritte
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Rene Magritte
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Rene Magritte: Thoughts Rendered Visible
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Masters of Art: Magritte
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Rene Magritte
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The Essential Rene Magritte
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Rene Magritte: Catalogue Raisonne
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