Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo released by Christie’s auction house on Saturday Feb. 3, 2024, shows “L’ami intime” (The Intimate Friend) by surrealist ...

René Magritte is best known for his Surrealist masterpieces like The Son of Man (1964), which bend reality and subvert ...

In preparing the paintings for "Mystery of the Ordinary," conservators from each of the presenting museums got under the skin of Magritte's canvases like never before, yielding new knowledge about how ...

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 portrait of a mysterious woman has been found underneath a painting by Magritte thanks to the use of infrared reflectography. The sitter is believed to have been his wife Georgette. Magritte ...

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 ...

It’s an old parlor game: can you name 10 famous Belgians? Belgium may be a tiny nation, and often the butt of its neighbors’ jokes, but it can claim two 20th century artistic giants who would make it ...

The 71st edition of one of the world’s oldest art fairs will run from 25 January until 1 February, showing Old Master and modern paintings, jewelry, furniture and more.

LONDON — 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 auction ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LONDON (AP) — A major work by surrealist ...