Seznam děl umělce Magritte René

1898 Born in the small town of Lessines, a cosmopolitan area of Belgium
1916 - 1918 Studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels

1922 Married Georgette Berger

1923 Sells his first painting, a portrait of the singer Evelyne Brélia

1925 Painted first major surrealist work, 'Le Jockey Perdu' (The Lost Jockey)

1927 Magritte and Georgette move to Paris to be closer to the Surrealists and becomes friends with Andre Breton

1967 Died in Brussels, August 15


Selected Exhibitions


1967 exhibition in the Galerie Iolas in Paris

1965 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York

1927 first solo exhibition at the Galérie Le Centaure
In: http://www.artnet.com/artist/661456/rene-magritte.html * * * * * This is Belgian surrealism
Surrealism in Belgium? Magritte, a lot, Delvaux, a little, and you have wrapped it up. This short sighted view does not resist the analysis. And in particular since we have a work that will become a classic. The author, the director of the museum of Photography in Charleroi, dedicated a number of years to this subject. He did not avoid the sacred elements but removed the official coating that made them less attractive: go ahead and read the pamphlets on L’Imbécile, L’Emmerdeur and L’Enculeur ! They are done by Magritte and Marcel Mariën (1920-1993). The latter, hardly known by the public, is an essential link in Belgian Surrealism. He was the author in 1961 of a joke-pamphlet (taken very seriously) on theGrande Baisse(The huge discunt): it claimed Magritte was ready to sell his paintings to make them available to all …Nougé, Scutenaire, Mesens, Lefrancq are other highly studied artists of the same importance, up to the most recent epigones such as Tom Gutt or Claudine Jamagne. The rich iconography allows us to go beyond the movement's icon-paintings. It combines photos from archives, collages and covers of major magazines such as Les lèvres nues (Naked lips).
Surrealism in Belgium, by Xavier Canonne, Fonds Mercator, 2007, 352 p., ISBN : 90-5163-659-6, 79 €.
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