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In its wake, Magritte, who lived until 1967, returned often to earlier ideas and obsessions. But he wasn’t just repeating himself. His best late paintings — SFMOMA’s “Personal Values,” ...
It brings together 68 paintings and drawings by popular Belgian Surrealist Rene Magritte ... in the 1952 painting “Personal Values,” hanging next to it. Magritte literally looms large.
The origins of his abnormally enlarged objects can be traced back to Magritte’s Personal Values, in which Magritte places outsized objects in a bedroom whose wall is a painted sky. However ...
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 ...
A rare painting from René Magritte’s famous “L’empire des lumières” series is estimated to sell for more than $95 million at Christie’s New York this fall, a sum that would break the ...
To celebrate this milestone, a mysterious masterpiece by René Magritte that hasn’t been seen publicly in over 25 years is going to auction. Completed in 1958, L’ami intime (The Intimate ...