On the morning of May 19, minutes after SFMOMA’s René Magritte exhibit opened for a member preview, so many people flooded the fourth-floor entrance that a line formed. The newly arriving members ...

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.

A painting by René Magritte is expected to sell for at least US$95 million at a Christie’s auction in November in New York. Titled L’empire des lumières, 1954, meaning “The Empire of Light,” the work ...

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 ...

What started as a mild dislike for René Magritte quickly became admiration. Once German artist Raphaëlle Martin started to animate the Surrealist Belgian’s paintings, he saw how completely dynamic ...

The Art Institute of Chicago's new exhibition spins everyday objects into dream-like works of art. "Magritte, The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938," a showcase of works by the late Belgian ...

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 ...

If any painter were built for virtual reality, it’s Rene Magritte. The Belgian artist’s surreal worlds–full of raining businessmen and oversized fruit and pipes that are not really pipes–just beg to ...

René Magritte, "L'ami intime (The Intimate Friend)" (1958), oil on canvas, 28.5/8 x 25.1/2 inches (image courtesy the Gilbert and Lena Kaplan Collection and Christie's London) In a centenary ...

Move over, Picasso, van Gogh and Warhol. With an inscrutable painting, the Belgian painter breaks a nine-figure threshold at Christie’s fall auction. By Scott Reyburn After the U.S. election, ...