Narrator: In the fall of 1927, Magritte left Brussels for Paris, the center of Surrealism. There he began a sustained investigation of the relationship between text and image. Director of the Menil ...

Narrator: Edward James, a British poet and patron of Surrealism, commissioned Magritte to make this portrait in 1937, titled Not to be Reproduced. Curator, Art Institute of Chicago, Stephanie ...

Magritte studied at art school in Brussels, Belgium and took various jobs to earn money, including designing wallpaper and fashion adverts. The sorts of things Magritte painted included: Rather like ...

This painting is an important late example of Magritte’s work and the largest version of this subject, which he treated on four occasions. Unlike some of the other Surrealists, who believed that the ...