In a private collection since 1998, The Son of Man is perhaps Magritte’s most iconic image, its figure’s apple-covered face gracing countless items of Magritte merchandise around the world.

Rene Magritte (holding a schipperke) and his wife Georgette Berger. | Apic/GettyImages. In a 1965 radio interview, Magritte said: “At least it hides the face partly.

Luxembourg + Co., a tony gallery that’s been putting on museum-like shows in New York and London since 2011, has outdone ...

René Magritte, “The Listening Room,” 1952; oil on canvas. ... vicious face. Then, almost as suddenly (you simply walk into the show’s second gallery), he turns around again.

You won't travel far down the list of art’s most recognizable images before landing on Rene Magritte’s The Son of Man, on display now through October 28 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

MAGRITTE A Life By Alex Danchev with Sarah Whitfield. Even people who do not recognize the name René Magritte are likely to recognize his bowler-hatted man, that solitary wanderer in a dark ...

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 ...

LONDON (AP) — 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.

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

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 ...

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 ...