Rene Magritte – Artwork & Bio of the Belgian Painter

Rene Magritte was a Belgian painter born on 21 November 1898 in Lessines, Belgium. Magritte’s artistic studies began in 1916 at the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. On his return to Belgium after his military service, he worked as a draftsman under the supervision of Victor Servranckx and started painting freelance the following year.

The Galerie de Centaure represented Magritte from 1925 to 1930, giving the artist one of his most successful periods. Magritte experienced massive financial success again in the late-1930s due to the interest of international collectors. This period of flourish halted again due to the outbreak of WW2. However,

Throughout his career, Magritte received numerous accolades for his work, including the Legion of Honour award by the French Government in 1967.

Magritte experienced accomplishment in his art during his later years. He died on 15 August 1967 in Brussels.

What was Rene Magritte Known For?

Magritte is known for his thought-provoking and enigmatic surrealist images that feature ordinary objects in unusual contexts. Magritte initially painted using geometrical forms and shapes in the Cubism style. From 1926, when he switched to Surrealism, Magritte painted several colorful themes.

Who was Rene Magritte Influenced By?

Magritte was heavily influenced by the works of the Surrealists, particularly the works of Salvador Dalí and Giorgio de Chirico. He was also influenced by the Dada movement, as well as by the works of the Belgian Symbolist painters. Leger and Metzinger’s works, which were introduced to him by fellow student Victor Servranckx influenced Magritte’s early experimentation with Cubism.

What Art Movement was Rene Magritte Associated With?

Rene Magritte was associated with the Cubism and Surrealism art movements. His surrealist works are characterized by ambiguous organic subjects and themes of emotional states. The breakout of WW2 prompted him to employ a brighter palette.

Rene Magritte Artwork

Below are some of the artworks of Rene Magritte

Attempting the Impossible

Collective Invention

Elective Affinities

Golconda

Man in a Bowler Hat

Memory of a Voyage

Not to be Reproduced

On the Threshold of Liberty

Personal Values

The Battle of the Argonne

The Castle of the Pyrenees

The False Mirror

The Human Condition

The Listening Room

The Lovers

The Menaced Assassin

The Mysteries of the Horizon

The Treachery of Images

The Voice of Space

Time Transfixed

All Rene Magritte Artwork on Artchive

Artwork Name Year Medium
Act of violence 1932; Brussels, Belgium
Adulation of space c.1928; Paris, France
Advertisment for "Norine" c.1925; Brussels, Belgium
Man in a Bowler Hat 1964; Belgium oil,canvas
Man reading a newspaper 1928; Paris, France oil,canvas
Meditation 1936; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Memory 1948; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Memory 1948; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Memory of a journey 1955; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Memory of a Voyage 1952; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Memory of a Voyage 1955; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Mental complacency 1950; Brussels, Belgium
Midnight marriage 1926; Brussels, Belgium
The difficult crossing 1926; Brussels, Belgium
The disguised symbol 1928; Paris, France oil,canvas
The domain of Arnheim 1947; Belgium
The domain of Arnheim 1938; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The domain of Arnheim 1944; Carcasonne / Carcassonne, France gouache,paper
The domain of Arnheim 1949; Brussels, Belgium
The domain of Arnheim 1962; Belgium gouache,paper
The double secret 1927; Paris, France
The drop of water 1948; Brussels, Belgium
The ellipse 1948; Brussels, Belgium gouache,paper
The Pilgrim 1966; Belgium
The pipe 1927; Paris, France
The Pleasure Principle (Portrait of Edward James) 1937; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The poet recompensed 1956; Brussels, Belgium
The Postcard 1960; Belgium oil,canvas
The Prepared Bouquet 1957; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The presence of spirit 1960; Brussels, Belgium
The present 1939; Brussels, Belgium gouache,paper
The promise 1966; Belgium
The psychologist 1948; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Advertisment for "Norine" c.1925; Brussels, Belgium
Advertisment for "Norine" c.1925; Brussels, Belgium
Advertisment for "Norine" c.1925; Brussels, Belgium
Advertisment for "Norine" c.1925; Brussels, Belgium
Advertisment for "Norine" c.1925; Brussels, Belgium
Advertisment for "Norine" c.1925; Brussels, Belgium
Advertisment for "Norine" c.1925; Brussels, Belgium
Advertisment for "Norine" c.1925; Brussels, Belgium
Advertisment for "Norine" c.1925; Brussels, Belgium
Modern 1923; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Natural encounters 1945; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Nocturne 1925; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Night of love 1947 oil,canvas
Every day 1966 oil,canvas
Untitled 1926 collage,pencil,paper
The Perfume of the Abyss 1928
The domain of Arnheim 1938
Not to be Reproduced 1937; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Nude 1919; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The empire of lights 1954; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The Empire of Lights (Unfinished) 1967; Belgium oil,canvas
The empty mask 1928; Paris, France oil,canvas
The endearing truth 1966; Belgium oil,canvas
The end of contemplation 1927; Paris, France oil,canvas
The Eternal Evidence 1930; Belgium oil,canvas
The evening gown 1954; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The explanation 1952; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The face of genius 1926; Brussels, Belgium
The fair captive 1931; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The red model 1935; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The Return 1940; Carcasonne / Carcassonne, France oil,canvas
The Return of the Flame 1943; Carcasonne / Carcassonne, France oil,canvas
The revealing of the present 1936; Brussels, Belgium
The Rights of Man 1947; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The sage's carnival 1947; Brussels, Belgium
The schoolmaster 1954; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The sea of flames 1946; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The search for truth 1963; Belgium
The secret player 1927; Paris, France oil,canvas
A famous man 1926; Brussels, Belgium
A friend of order 1964; Belgium
After the Water, the Clouds 1926; Brussels, Belgium
Alice in Wonderland 1945; Brussels, Belgium
A little of the bandit's soul 1960; Belgium oil
Almayer's folly 1951; Brussels, Belgium
Anne-Marie Crowet 1956; Brussels, Belgium
Annunciation 1930; Paris, France oil,canvas
A panic in the Middle Ages 1927; Paris, France
Applied dialectics 1945; Brussels, Belgium
One night museum 1927; Paris, France
On the Threshold of Liberty 1930; Paris, France oil,canvas
Pandora's Box 1951; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Pebble 1948; Brussels, Belgium
Perpetual motion 1935; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Personal values 1952; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Perspective: Madame Récamier de David 1950; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Philosopher's lamp 1936; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Philosophy in the bedroom 1947; Brussels, Belgium
Pink Belles, Tattered Skies 1930; Paris, France oil,canvas
The fair captive 1947; Brussels, Belgium
The fair captive 1965; Belgium
The false mirror 1928; Paris, France oil,canvas
The familiar objects 1928; Paris, France oil,canvas
The famine 1948; Brussels, Belgium
The fanatics 1955; Brussels, Belgium
The female thief 1927; Paris, France
The fine idea 1964; Belgium
The finery of the storm 1927; Paris, France
The fire 1943; Carcasonne / Carcassonne, France
The seducer 1953; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The seducer 1953; Brussels, Belgium
The sensational news 1926; Brussels, Belgium
The silver gap 1926; Brussels, Belgium
The six elements 1928; Paris, France
The smile 1943; Carcasonne / Carcassonne, France
The song of love 1948; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The spirit of adventure 1962; Belgium oil,canvas
The spot on the map 1955; Brussels, Belgium
The staging post 1948; Brussels, Belgium
Architecture au clair de lune 1956; Belgium oil
A storm 1932; Brussels, Belgium gouache
A stroke of luck 1948; Brussels, Belgium
A taste of the invisible 1927; Paris, France oil,canvas
Attempting the Impossible 1928; Paris, France oil,canvas
Banquet 1955; Brussels, Belgium
Bather 1925; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Bather between Light and Darkness 1935; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Bathers 1921; Brussels, Belgium
Beautiful world 1962; Belgium oil,canvas
Plain of Air 1940; Carcasonne / Carcassonne, France
Polar light 1926; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Pom'po pom'po pon po pon pon 1948; Brussels, Belgium
Popular panorama 1926; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Portrait 1935; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Portrait of E.L.T. Mesens 1930; Paris, France
Portrait of Pierre Bourgeois 1920; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Portrait of Pierre Broodcoorens 1921; Brussels, Belgium
Portrait of Stephy Langui 1961; Belgium
Poster - Exciting perfumes by Mem 1946; Brussels, Belgium
The first day 1943; Carcasonne / Carcassonne, France
The flash 1959; Brussels, Belgium
The flood 1928; Paris, France
The forbidden world 1949; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The forest 1927; Paris, France
The fountain of youth 1958; Brussels, Belgium
The future of statues 1937; Brussels, Belgium oil,plaster
The giantess 1929; Paris, France cardboard,tempera
The Giant. Paul Nougé (poet and founder of surrealism in Belgium) on the Belgian Coast 1937 photography
The glass house 1939; Brussels, Belgium gouache,paper
The submissive reader 1928; Paris, France
The survivor 1950; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The symmetrical trick 1928; Paris, France oil,canvas
The Taste of Sorrow 1948; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The taste of tears 1946; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The Therapist 1937; Belgium oil
The therapeutist 1937; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The titanic days 1928; Paris, France oil,canvas
The titanic days 1930; Try Paris, Belgium oil,canvas
The tomb of the wrestlers 1960; Belgium oil,canvas
Black Flag 1937; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Black Magic 1934; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Black Magic 1945; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Blue cinema 1925; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Call of peaks 1943; Carcasonne / Carcassonne, France
Checkmate 1926; Brussels, Belgium
Chorus of the sphinx 1964; Belgium oil,canvas
Cicero c.1965; Belgium oil,canvas
Cicero 1947; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Clairvoyance (Self Portrait) 1936; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Poster for cigarettes "Belga" 1935; Brussels, Belgium
Poster of International festival of cinema and fine arts in Brussels (1947) 1947; Brussels, Belgium
Primevera 1926; Brussels, Belgium lithography,paper
Prince charming 1948; Brussels, Belgium gouache,paper
Prince Charming 1948; Brussels, Belgium
Project for a mural, Norine House, Brussels c.1931; Brussels, Belgium gouache,cardboard
Project for a mural, Norine House, Brussels c.1931; Brussels, Belgium gouache,cardboard
Project of poster "The center of textile workers in Belgium" 1938; Brussels, Belgium
Project of poster "The center of textile workers in Belgium" 1938; Brussels, Belgium
Project of poster "The center of textile workers in Belgium" 1938; Brussels, Belgium
The glass key 1959; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The golden legend 1958; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The good season 1961; Belgium
The great century 1954; Brussels, Belgium
The great table c.1965; Belgium
The great table 1963; Belgium
The Great War 1964; Belgium
The Great War 1964; Belgium oil,canvas
The happy donor 1966; Belgium
The happy hand 1953; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The tow plug 1947; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The treachery of images (This is not a pipe) 1928 - 1929; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The treachery of images (This is not a pipe) 1966; Belgium
The tree of knowledge 1929; Paris, France oil,canvas
The triumphant march 1947; Brussels, Belgium
The two mysteries 1966; Belgium oil,canvas
The victory 1939; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The voice of blood 1948; Brussels, Belgium gouache
The voice of blood 1948; Brussels, Belgium
The voice of blood 1959; Brussels, Belgium lithography,paper
Clear ideas 1958; Brussels, Belgium
Collage 1966; Belgium collage,pencil,ink
Collective Invention 1934; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Companions of Fear 1942; Carcasonne / Carcassonne, France oil,canvas
Composition on a seashore 1935; Brussels, Belgium
Copper handcuffs 1931; Brussels, Belgium oil,plaster
Courtesan's palace 1929; Paris, France oil,canvas
Decalcomania 1966; Belgium oil,canvas
Deep waters 1941; Carcasonne / Carcassonne, France oil,canvas
Delusions of grandeur 1948; Brussels, Belgium
Project of poster "The center of textile workers in Belgium (celebration on 18th september)" 1938; Brussels, Belgium
Project of poster "The center of textile workers in Belgium (to reduce working hours)" 1938; Brussels, Belgium
Pure reason 1948; Brussels, Belgium
Rape 1934; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Rape 1935; Brussels, Belgium
Rape 1948; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Reclining nude 1925; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Representation 1937; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Representation 1962; Belgium oil,canvas
Secret Life IV 1928; Belgium oil,canvas
The harvest 1943; Carcasonne / Carcassonne, France oil,canvas
The heart of the matter 1928; Paris, France oil,canvas
The heartstrings 1960; Belgium oil,canvas
The hesitation waltz 1950; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The Human Condition 1933; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The human condition 1935; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The hunters at the edge of night 1928; Paris, France oil,canvas
The idol 1965; Belgium oil,canvas
The ignorant fairy 1950; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The imaginative faculty 1948; Brussels, Belgium
The voice of space 1928; Paris, France
The wasted footsteps 1950; Brussels, Belgium
The white race 1937; Brussels, Belgium
The white race 1967; Belgium
The window 1925; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
This is Not an Apple 1964; Belgium
Threatening Weather 1929; Belgium oil,canvas
Three nudes in an interior 1923; Brussels, Belgium
Threshold of forest 1926; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Titania 1948; Brussels, Belgium gouache,paper
Depths of pleasure 1948; Brussels, Belgium
Discovery 1927; Belgium oil,canvas
Donna 1923; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Early morning 1942; Carcasonne / Carcassonne, France
Elective Affinities 1933; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Elementary cosmogony 1949; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Eternity 1935; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Faraway looks c.1927; Paris, France
Fashionable people 1950; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Favorable omens 1944; Carcasonne / Carcassonne, France
Self portrait 1923; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Sheherazade c.1950; Brussels, Belgium
Sheherazade 1950; Brussels, Belgium
Sixteenth of September 1956; Brussels, Belgium
Soir d'orage, strange perfume by mem c.1946; Brussels, Belgium
Song of violet 1951; Brussels, Belgium
The Son of Man 1964; Belgium oil,canvas
Souvenir from travels 1962; Belgium
Souvenirs from travel 1962 - 1963
Spring 1965; Belgium
The infinite recognition 1963; Belgium
The Intelligence 1946; Brussels, Belgium
The interpretation of dreams 1927; Belgium oil,canvas
The invention of life 1928; Paris, France
The Key to the Fields 1936; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The king's museum 1966; Belgium
The Labours of Alexander 1950; Brussels, Belgium
The Labours of Alexander 1967; Belgium
The Ladder Of Fire 1939; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The land of miracles 1964; Belgium
Unexpected answer 1933; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Untitled c.1925; Brussels, Belgium collage,paper
Untitled 1926; Brussels, Belgium collage,pencil,watercolor
Untitled collage c.1926; Paris, France collage
When the hour strikes 1965; Belgium
Where Euclide walked 1955; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Wreckage of the shadow 1926; Brussels, Belgium
Young girl eating a bird (The pleasure) 1927; Paris, France oil,canvas
Youth 1924; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Youth Illustrated 1937; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Fine realities 1964; Belgium oil,canvas
Flowers of Evil 1946; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Forbidden literature (The use of the Word) 1936; Brussels, Belgium
Force of habit 1960; Brussels, Belgium
Forest of Paimpont 1963; Belgium
Forethought 1943
Freedom of Mind 1948; Brussels, Belgium
Georgette 1937; Brussels, Belgium
Georgette at the Piano 1923; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Georgette Magritte 1934; Brussels, Belgium
Swift Hope 1928; Belgium oil,canvas
Territory 1957; Brussels, Belgium
The Acrobat's Exercises 1928; Paris, France oil,canvas
The age of enlightenment 1967; Belgium oil,canvas
The amorous perpective 1935; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The anger of gods 1960; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The art of conversation 1950; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The art of conversation 1950; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The art of conversation 1950; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The art of conversation 1950; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The legend of the centuries 1950; Brussels, Belgium
The liberator 1947; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The light of coincidence 1933; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The lining of sleep 1928; Paris, France oil,canvas
The Listening Room 1952; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The living mirror 1929; Paris, France oil,canvas
The lost jockey 1926; Brussels, Belgium collage
The lost jockey 1948; Brussels, Belgium gouache,paper
The lovers 1928; Paris, France oil,canvas
The Lovers 1928; Belgium oil,canvas
Gioconda 1964; Belgium oil,canvas
God's Salon 1948; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Good faith 1965; Belgium
Harry Torczyner (Justice has been done) 1958; Brussels, Belgium
Hegel's Holiday 1958; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
High Society 1962; Belgium
Homage to Alphonse Allais 1962; Belgium gouache,paper
Homage to Mack Sennett 1934; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Homesickness 1940; Carcasonne / Carcassonne, France oil,canvas
Imp of the Perverse 1927; Paris, France
The Battle of the Argonne 1959; Brussels, Belgium
The beautiful relations 1967; Belgium
The beneficial promise 1927; Paris, France oil,canvas
The beyond 1938; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The big family 1963; Belgium oil,canvas
The birth of idol 1926; Brussels, Belgium
The blank page 1967; Belgium
The blank signature 1965; Belgium oil,canvas
The blow to the heart 1952; Brussels, Belgium
The break in the clouds (The calm) 1941; Carcasonne / Carcassonne, France oil,canvas
The magician (Self-portrait with four arms) 1952; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The maimed c.1948; Brussels, Belgium gouache,paper
The man of the sea 1927; Paris, France oil,canvas
The marches of summer 1939; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The mark 1948; Brussels, Belgium
The masterpiece or the mysteries of the horizon 1955; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The meaning of night 1927; Paris, France oil,canvas
The menaced assassin 1927; Paris, France oil,canvas
The model 1922; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The month of the grape harvest 1959; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
In Praise of Dialectics 1937; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Intermission 1928; Paris, France oil,canvas
Invisible world 1954; Brussels, Belgium
Island of Treasures 1942; Carcasonne / Carcassonne, France gouache,paper
Jean-Marie 1948; Brussels, Belgium lithography
Landscape 1920; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
Landscape 1926; Brussels, Belgium
Lightning 1944
Lola de Valence 1948; Brussels, Belgium gouache,paper
Manet's Balcony 1950; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The Castle of the Pyrenees 1959; Belgium oil,canvas
The clearing 1944; Carcasonne / Carcassonne, France
The comic spirit 1927; Paris, France collage
The connivance 1965; Belgium
The conqueror 1926; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The cultivation of Ideas 1927; Paris, France
The cut-glass bath 1946; Brussels, Belgium gouache,paper
The dawn of Cayenne 1926; Brussels, Belgium oil,canvas
The delights of landscape 1928; Paris, France oil,canvas
The muscles of the sky 1927; Paris, France oil,canvas
The musings of the solitary walker 1926; Brussels, Belgium
The mysterious barricades 1961; Belgium oil,canvas
The natural graces 1963; Belgium oil,canvas
The natural graces 1964; Belgium oil,canvas
The natural graces 1967; Belgium
The Nightingale 1962; Belgium oil,canvas
The obsession 1928; Belgium oil,canvas
The philosophy in the bedroom 1962; Belgium
The pictorial content 1947; Brussels, Belgium
Painted Plaster Mask 1935 Painted Plaster Mask
Time Transfixed 1938 Oil on Canvas
The Voice of Space 1928 Oil on Canvas
The Reckless Sleeper 1927 Oil on Canvas
Perspective Madame Recamier by David 1949 Oil on Canvas
The Empire of Lights 1954 Oil on Canvas
The Discovery of Fire 1935 Oil on Panel
La lunette d'approche 1963 Oil on Canvas
The Red Model II 1934 Oil on Canvas
La clef de verre (The Glass Key) 1959 Oil on Canvas
Golconda 1953 Oil on Canvas
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