Spoken aloud, the letters mimic the French phrase “ Elle a chaud au cul ,” which literally translates to “She is hot in the ...

A classic Surrealist painting by René Magritte, which has never been sold before, has been revealed as one of the likely blockbusters at Sotheby’s Modern and contemporary auction in London on March 3.

René Magritte, “Forethought” (1943), oil on canvas, Koons Collection (© Charly Herscovici, Brussels / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, all images courtesy San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) In ...

Even if you haven’t visited a museum in a few years, the odds are good that you’ve come across one of René Magritte’s conceptually winking artworks recently. They pop up everywhere, from dorm-room ...

The Surrealists talked a good picture, and René Magritte was more a visual punster than a virtuoso painter. His art, Alex Danchev writes in this thoroughly and gruesomely entertaining biography, is “a ...

The Vampire Lestat reintroduces Anne Rice's epic Brat Prince as a rock star on the rise. Told from Lestat's perspective, ...

This photo released by Christie’s auction house on Saturday Feb. 3, 2024, shows “L’ami intime” (The Intimate Friend) by surrealist painter René Magritte. A major work by Magritte that hasn’t been ...

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 ...

Belgian surrealist René Magritte’s masterpiece L’empire des lumières, which was painted in 1961 for Anne-Marie Gillion Crowet and has been kept in her family since, will make its auction debut in ...

It is easy to regard René Magritte as a much better image-maker and inventor of visual and verbal conundrums than he was a painter. Certainly, many of his works look better in reproduction than they ...