Surrealist painter René Magritte created some of the most instantly recognizable images of the 20th century. Using appropriated motifs and weaving them into his paintings, Magritte created timeless ...

The underlying image in René Magritte's "La cinquième saison" (1943) (photo courtesy Royal Museum of Fine Arts) A team of researchers has discovered the face of a woman peering out from beneath ...

A classic Surrealist painting by René Magritte, which has never been sold before, has been revealed as one of the likely blockbusters at Sotheby’s Modern and contemporary auction in London on March 3.

Like the indelible dreams that the movement’s artists displayed on canvas, surrealism refuses to die. Launched nearly a century ago, with its techniques long absorbed by mainstream media and ...

The Surrealists talked a good picture, and René Magritte was more a visual punster than a virtuoso painter. His art, Alex Danchev writes in this thoroughly and gruesomely entertaining biography, is “a ...

René Magritte, "L'empire des lumières" (1954), oil on canvas, 57 1/4 x 44 1/2 inches (145.4 x 113 cm) (image courtesy Christie's, New York) As this year's centennial celebrations of Surrealism come to ...

Belgian surrealist René Magritte’s masterpiece L’empire des lumières, which was painted in 1961 for Anne-Marie Gillion Crowet and has been kept in her family since, will make its auction debut in ...

LONDON (AP) — A major work by surrealist painter René Magritte that hasn’t been shown in public for a quarter century could fetch 50 million pounds ($64 million) at auction next month. Christie’s ...

A René Magritte painting depicting an eerily lit streetscape sold for more than $121 million at a Christie’s auction in New York on Tuesday –– surpassing its $95 million estimate and smashing the ...

Researchers at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, using infrared reflectography, have discovered an earlier painted portrait of a woman underneath René Magritte’s 1943 painting, La Cinquième ...