Magritte’s vision was almost inseparable from a tragedy that occurred in his childhood. Born in the small town of Lessines in 1898, the oldest son of a tailor, he grew up in a middle-class home ...

Tracks the change in total value of sales, as well as the total number of lots offered and sold annually in the art market. This chart shows whether René Magritte’s total sales are going up, and if so ...

Magritte split with André Breton, the self-appointed leader and main theoretician of the Surrealist movement, when at a dinner party in Paris in 1930, Breton loudly demanded that Magritte's wife ...