Bar Magritte, located inside Hotel Amigo in Brussels, offers expert mixology and Magritte’s inimitable quirkiness. ... The jewel of the bar, however, is a larger-than-life wallpaper inspired by ...

MAGRITTE A Life By Alex Danchev with Sarah Whitfield. ... For a while he eked out a living in commercial art, drawing designs for wallpaper. He painted on the side, in an abstract, ...

The great surrealist René Magritte learnt his craft in advertising, an industry on which he, in turn, has had a powerful influence. Alastair Sooke explores his unique life and legacy .

Magritte painting fetches $121.2M The sale came a day after a painting by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte sold for $121.2 million, a record for the artist, at a separate auction.

More than 40 letters and postcards written by surrealist artist Rene Magritte will appear at auction in New York in June. The correspondence between Magritte and his friend, the poet Paul Colinet ...

Magritte's work has inspired pop and conceptual art, the cover of a Rolling Stones record, a video by Oasis, and songs by Paul Simon and John Cale. He was influenced by popular art - from the ...

Born in 1898, Magritte had to earn a living designing wallpaper and then drawing posters for an advertising agency before he successfully broke into the art world.

Magritte’s most radical paintings long ago grew so famous we can hardly see them any more. Shock is the casualty of its own success. ... He worked as a draughtsman in a wallpaper factory, ...

Even those who aren’t well versed in art know the work of Surrealist artist René Magritte. Who can forget his self-portrait, The Son of Man, which shows Magritte wearing a bowler hat with an ...

Hotel Amigo in Brussels just launched Bar Magritte - the world’s only bar dedicated to the Belgian Surrealist René Magritte, commemorating what would have been the artist's 125th birthday. The bar, ...