René Magritte

Selected Writings

Catalogues an extensive exhibition held at the Royal Museums, Brussels; covers the full spectrum of Magritte's work.

Magritte, 1898-1967

Robert Hughes

De tous les artistes qui se sont joints au surréalisme d'André Breton, Magritte est le seul qui ait réussi à cerner et à rendre avec tant de justesse l'univers des rêves qui vit en chacun de nous. Magritte ne partageait pas l'obsession publicitaire de Salvador Dali, il était tout simplement peintre. Pourtant, malgré sa discrétion, il a déclenché une véritable révolution dans notre subconscient et nous oblige à nous pencher sur notre être intérieur.

Les essentiels de l'art Magritte

Jacques Meuris

Magritte

The Human Condition

Xavier Canonne

Revealing Image

W. van den Bussche

Pierre Sterckx

Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Ostend, Belgium)

Michel Baudson

Christine Vuegen

The playful surrealism of Rene Magritte (1898-1967) has had a tremendous and liberating influence on the art of our day, and this book is the first to take a systematic look at that influence. Cataloging a Belgian exhibition, this volume illustrates how some 50+ contemporary artists -- including Artschwager, Louise Bourgeois, Wim Delvoye, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Boyd Webb and many more -- have, in various ways and to varying degrees, shown a conceptual kinship with Magritte's work. Special attention in the book is paid to Magritte's sculptures, which are exhibited here completely for the first time, and which were created at the end of the artist's life. These works constitute a link from Magritte's life to the present, as they were mostly cast after his death. This book even considers Magritte's legacy as reflected in such mediums as film, theater, photography, video and computer art. The book features over 200 images, as well as text by noted art critics Edward-Lucie Smith and Robert Rosenblum.

René Magritte and the Contemporary Art

Gimpel & Hanover Galerie

Die Acht Skulpturen. The Eight Sculptures

A continuation of the five-volume René Magritte Catalogue Raisonné that introduces 130 newly attributed works

Newly Discovered Works : Catalogue Raisonné. Oil paintings, gouaches, drawings. VI

René Passeron

Rene Magritte

Harry Torczyner

Bella Bessard

Collects reproductions of the Belgian artist's paintings and drawings and examines his artistic themes, techniques, and theories

Magritte, the True Art of Painting

Siegfried Gohr

"This lavishly illustrated book assembles a wide range of Magritte's work, providing a thorough overview that focuses on all aspects of his oeuvre: paintings, drawings, collages, graphic design, prints and sculptures."--Inside jacket.

Attempting the Impossible

Rene Magritte (1898-1967) did not keep copies of his letters, nor did he generally save those he received. But Harry Torczyner, Magritte's confidant, friend, and attorney, cherished the letters he received from the great Belgian Surrealist artist between 1957 and 1967, and kept them all - along with duplicates of his own responses. Here, selections from this lively correspondence are reproduced and set in context by Torczyner's notes. In his letters, Magritte dealt candidly with the daily concerns of his art. He revealed the workings of his own creative process in words and, frequently, in drawings. Although they belonged to different worlds, Magritte the painter and Torczyner the lawyer shared similar mental inclinations and a vivid curiosity. They were both hostile to obligatory sentiments; boredom was deemed to be the supreme menace, and they remained mutually critical in their correspondence and in their encounters - while remaining friends. The Magritte-Torczyner connection had its special tone, which this book faithfully reflects. Illustrated with reproductions of paintings mentioned in the letters, as well as with personal photographs of both men, this intriguing book offers fresh insights into the last ten years of Magritte's life and work.

Letters Between Friends

Magritte/Torczyner

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Stephanie Barron

Michel Draguet

Sara Cochran

Essays by Michel Draguet, Dickram Tashjian, Sara Cochran, Theresa Papanikolas, Thierry de Duve and Stephanie Barron. Introduction by Stephanie Barron.

The Treachery of Images

Magritte and Contemporary Art

Words and Images

Secret Affinities

Richard Armstrong

Lynn Zelevansky

Theresa Papanikolas

Noëllie Roussel

Sarah Whitfield

The five volume work presents an authoritative survey of the artist's oeuvre, from 1916 to his death in 1967.

Catalogue Raisonne

Rene Magritte: Oil Paintings and Objects, 1931-48 V. 2

Michael Raeburn

René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné: Gouaches, temperas, watercolours and papiers collés, 1918-1967

Rene Magritte: Oil Paintings, Objects and Sculptures, 1949-67 V. 3

René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné: Oil paintings, objects and bronzes, 1949-1967

René Magritte

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