“René Magritte: The Phantom Landscape,” at New York’s Luxembourg + Co. through July 12, asks us to put aside pipes, bowler hats, green apples, and clouds when we think of the Belgian ...

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Art History Nothing Is What It Seems in Magritte’s Most Iconic Artwork We dove into the visual riddle that is René Magritte's 'The Treachery of Images'—art history's most infamous pipe.

The surrealist turned pipes, apples, clouds and men in bowler hats into existential questions. In the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Magritte exhibition, you too can ponder the nature of reality in ...

A day after Sotheby’s tested the strength of the trophy market with its $65.5 million Claude Monet, rival Christie’s did one better—by auctioning off a $121.2 million René Magritte.

Viewers can also see paintings full of Magritte’s signature motifs—like apples, pipes and bowler hats—that would become deeply influential to contemporary art in the years that followed.

The Magritte exhibition foregrounds the artist’s work in the context of Belgian Surrealism, emphasising how he was influenced by fellow writers, philosophers and artists in Brussels.

René Magritte’s The Meaning of Night (Le Sens de la Nuit), 1927. L’Empire des Lumières is one of Magritte’s best-known series of works.

Rene Magritte with the iconic bowler hat. “He described himself as a painter of ideas and, when asked about the meaning of his art, responded that “mystery is the supreme thing”.

With childlike humour they aimlessly proceed to exchange, in a pass-the-parcel manner, ordinary household objects: a bowler hat, an ornamental statue bust, a mantel clock, a smoking pipe.

The meme has been around so long that it has infiltrated other memes. Installation view of "Rene Magritte - The Treachery of Images" at Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2017. Photo ...