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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. |
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Original works by René Magritte available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Les Bijoux Indiscrets, 1963
Untitled Poster for Magritte Exhibition, 1966
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Magritte Museum, Brussels, Belgium NEW!
The major new museum associated with the Royal Museums of Fine Arts
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
7 works by René Magritte online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
4 works online
Rene Magritte at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
2 works by Rene Magritte
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Les Amants [The lovers]
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Perspective: Madame Récamier by David
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Voice of Space, 1931
Empire of Light, 1953-54
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
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, UK
The Flavour of Tears
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Persian Letters, 1958
The Light of Coincidences, 1933
Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires (partly in Spanish)
Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, New York
Flash slideshow; Click "Works on Paper" and navigate to work #24
Indiana State University Art Collection NEW!
Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University
The Last Jockey, gouache and collage, 1926
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
The Empty Mask, 1928
Rene Magritte in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
5 works online
MUMOK - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
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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
National Museums and Galleries of Wales
The Empty Mask, 1928
Norwich Museums, England
La Condition Humaine
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
L'Introuvable, 1964
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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The Six Elements
Portland Museum of Art, Maine
Click thumbnails #5 and #6 for paintings by Magritte
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
San Diego Museum of Art, California
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Scheringa Museum voor Realisme, Spanbroek, Netherlands NEW!
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Rene Magritte at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
State Museums of Florence, Italy
The Happy Donor, 1966
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran NEW!
Le Chemin du Ciel
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
L'Oeil, etching
The Albertina, Vienna NEW!
The Enchanted Spot, 1953
The Menil Collection, Texas
L'empire des lumiéres (The Dominion of Light), 1954
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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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)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Rene Magritte in the Art Renewal Center
2 works online
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: The Listening Room
Rene Magritte at CGFA
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bert Christensen's Cyberspace Home
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
Malek Gallery
La clef de verre
Malek Gallery
9 works
Olga's Gallery
The ArtFile
The Halter Collection
4 paintings online
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Web Sites Dedicated to the Artist:
René Magritte Foundation
Miscellaneous Sites:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
Scroll down to signature 285
Collection New York (a private collector who has put some of his or her collection online)
5 works online
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:
Answers.com reference works 
See the "Photography Encyclopedia" entry, which is actually from The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (2005)
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 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
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
Biographical info
Artnet Magazine
The Interpretation of Dreams
Brain-Juice - 20th Century Biographies
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
Time Magazine
"The Poker-Faced Enchanter", 1992 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Enter the Stolid Enchanter: A Rene Magritte retrospective", 1979 article by Robert Hughes
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.
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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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Rene Magritte
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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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