Painter
Rene Magritte was a Belgian Surrealist painter who was trained
in Brussels and travelled in France, Britain, Germany and Holland. He lived near
Paris, 1927 and came into contact with the French Surrealist movement,
although he painted some Impressionist-style pictures during World War 11.
He later lived in Brussels and painted murals for Belgian public buildings. His
pale and dryly painted works have a dream-like clarity, with, frequently, an
unexpected wittiness. They often have nude women, sometimes accompanied
by men in bowler hats, and similar incongruities.
There are examples in Brussels,
Cardiff, Charleroi, Chicago, Edinburgh, London (Tate), Los Angeles, New
York (M ofMA) and Paris (Mus. d'Art Mod.).
Source: The Penguin Dictionary of Art and Artists (Penguin Reference Books)
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