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Rene Magritte

Rene Magritte (1898 - 1967) was active/lived in Germany, Belgium.  Rene Magritte is known for Surrealist painting-figure, landscape.

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Rene Magritte was born on November 21,1898 in the town of Lessines in southern Belgium, near Brussels. He was the oldest of three brothers. He began taking art lessons at the age of twelve. Between 1916 and 1921 he was enrolled at the Academie Royale des Beaux Arts in Brussels, but he attended classes only occasionally. He had some published drawings, some advertising posters, a stint as a designer at a wallpaper factory and another doing freelance publicity work for a fashion house. He had toyed with Dada, Futurism and Cubism; he had designed magazine covers and stage sets and written song lyrics.

When he was only fourteen, Magritte woke one night to find his mother missing. He and his brothers searched the neighborhood and found her, drowned in a river after a jump from a bridge. Her nightgown was folded back over her face by the current. Several of his paintings painted through his life used a nude woman with various references to this tragic loss.

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L'empire des lumières, "estimate upon request" , 1954

Rene Magritte

Lot 19a
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L’empire des lumières (Estimate Upon Request) , 1961

Rene Magritte

Lot 114
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L'ami intime , 1958

Rene Magritte

Lot 108
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L'Empire des lumières , 1951

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LE PRINCIPE DU PLAISIR , 1937

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Lot 35
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La voix du sang , 1948

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Lot 20
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