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6 unusual facts about René Magritte


Ceci n'est pas un conte

In the image of the painting The Treachery of Images by René Magritte, Diderot wants to tell us that a person's behavior is not in itself moral or immoral.

Just Folks... A Firesign Chat

The album cover references Le Chef D’Oeuvre, a painting by René Magritte.

Key of Dreams

The name “Key of Dreams” is taken from the 1930 surrealist painting by René Magritte.

Mark Strand

Strand has been compared to Robert Bly in his use of surrealism, though he attributes the surreal elements in his poems to an admiration of the works of Max Ernst, Giorgio de Chirico, and René Magritte.

Sohan Qadri

Over his long career, Qadri has interacted with a wide array of cultural figures including Surrealist painter René Magritte, Nobel laureate Heinrich Böll, and architect Le Corbusier.

The League of Frightened Men

"A number of the paintings of René Magritte (1898–1967), the internationally famous Belgian painter, are named after titles of books by Rex Stout," wrote the artist's attorney and friend Harry Torczyner.


Beck-Ola

The cover features a reproduction of Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte's The Listening Room.

Knokke Casino

The largest of Belgium's ten casinos, it is known for its artwork by Keith Haring, René Magritte and Paul Delvaux.

Marlborough Fine Art

During the 1970s and 1980s, Marlborough staged exhibitions by Frank Auerbach, Lynn Chadwick, Lucian Freud, Barbara Hepworth, R.B. Kitaj, Ben Nicholson, Victor Pasmore, John Piper, Graham Sutherland, Jacques Lipchitz, René Magritte, Max Beckmann, Max Bill, and Henri Matisse.

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Among the best-known artists that are exhibited in the permanent exhibition of the museum are Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rembrandt, Claude Monet, Wassily Kandinsky, Vincent van Gogh, Maurizio Cattelan, Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, Mark Rothko, Edvar Munch and Willem de Kooning.

National Gallery of Canada

René Magritte: Perspective: Madame Récamier by David, parodying the Portrait of Madame Récamier (1951)


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