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List of paintings by René Magritte

This is a list of the works of Belgian painter René Magritte (21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967), a key surrealist painter known for the wittiness of his work.[1]

René Magritte
Born
René François Ghislain Magritte

(1898-11-21)21 November 1898
Lessines, Belgium
Died15 August 1967(1967-08-15) (aged 68)
Brussels, Belgium
Known forPainter
Notable workThe Treachery of Images
The Son of Man
The Human Condition
Golconda
The Menaced Assassin
The Lovers
MovementSurrealism

Paintings

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This list includes paintings attributed to Magritte.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by editing the page to add missing items, with references to reliable sources.

1898–1925: Early years

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Image Title Year Location Medium Dimensions (cm.) Comments
Nude 1919 Brachot Gallery, Brussels oil on canvas 40 × 29 cm
Landscape[2] 1920 oil on canvas 83 × 64 cm
Portrait of Pierre Bourgeois 1920 oil on canvas
Bathers 1921 oil on canvas 55 × 38 cm
Portrait of Pierre Broodcoorens 1921 oil on canvas
L'Écuyère 1922 oil on canvas 63 × 90 cm Also known as The Station
The Model 1922 Palais des Beaux-Arts de Charleroi, Charleroi oil on canvas 40 × 29 cm Also known as Woman Bathing
Donna 1923 oil on canvas 46 × 38 cm
Georgette at the Piano 1923 Brachot Gallery, Brussels oil on canvas 44 × 36.5 cm
Modern 1923 oil on canvas
Self-portrait 1923 oil on canvas
Night Life 1923 oil on canvas 50.1 × 40.2 cm
Three Nudes in an Interior 1923 oil on canvas 59.5 × 55.5 cm
Youth 1924 oil on canvas 50.5 × 41 cm
Advertisements for "Norine" 1925 gouache on paper
The Bather 1925 Palais des Beaux-Arts de Charleroi, Charleroi oil on canvas 50 × 100 cm
Blue Cinema 1925 Private collection oil on canvas 65 × 54cm
Nocturne 1925 oil on canvas 65 × 75 cm
Reclining Nude 1925 oil on canvas
The Window 1925 oil on canvas
Untitled 1925 Private collection collage 55 × 40 cm

1926–1930: Paris

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Image Title Year Location Medium Dimensions (cm.) Comments
Wreckage of the Dark[3] 1926 Musée de Grenoble Oil on canvas 120 × 80 cm
Popular Panorama[4] 1926 Oil on canvas 120 × 80 cm
Silvered Chasm[5] 1926 Oil on canvas 75 × 65 cm
Famous Man[6] 1926 Oil on canvas 65 × 81 cm
Sensational News[7] 1926 Oil on canvas 62 × 81 cm
Desert Catapult[8] 1926 Oil on canvas 75 × 65 cm
Rêve d'étudiant[9] 1926 Nationalgalerie. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg Öl. Ripolin und Bleistift auf Leinwand 80.3 × 70 cm
Portrait of Paul Nougé[10] 1927 Musées royaux des beaux-arts de Belgique Oil on canvas 95 × 65 cm
Forest[11] 1927 Musée de l’art wallon Oil on canvas 100 × 73 cm
Table. Ocean and Fruit[12] 1927 Oil on canvas 50 × 65 cm
Taste for the Invisible[13] 1927 Oil on canvas 100 × 73 cm
Double Secret (Le double secret)[14] 1927 Musée National d’Art Moderne. Centre Georges Pompidou. Paris. France Oil on canvas 114 × 162 cm
Meaning of Night[15] 1927 Menil Collection (Houston. Tex.) Oil on canvas 139 × 105 cm
The Murderous Sky (Le ciel meurtrier)[16] 1927 Musée National d’Art Moderne. Centre Georges Pompidou. Paris. France Oil on canvas 73 × 100 cm
Female Thief[17] 1927 Musées royaux des beaux-arts de Belgique Oil on canvas 100 × 73 cm
Prince of Objects[18] 1927 Oil on canvas with collaged canvas 50 × 65 cm
The Menaced Assassin[19] 1927 The Museum of Modern Art; Kay Sage Tanguy Fund Oil on canvas 150.4 × 195.2 cm
The Adulation of Space 1927-1928 Private collection oil on canvas 81 cm × 116 cm
Palace of Curtains[20] 1928 Oil on canvas 81 × 116 cm
Voice of Silence[21] 1928 Oil on canvas 54 × 73 cm
Acrobat's Ideas[22] 1928 Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst Oil on canvas 116 × 81 cm
Swift Hope[23] 1928 Hamburger Kunsthalle Oil on canvas 49.5 × 64 cm
Flowers of the Abyss I[24] 1928 Oil on canvas 54 × 73 cm
Flood[25] 1928 Oil on canvas 73 × 54 cm
Acrobat's Rest[26] 1928 Oil on canvas 54 × 73 cm
Apparition[27] 1928 Galerie Brusberg Oil on canvas 54 × 73 cm
Delights of Landscape[28] 1928 Oil on canvas 54 × 73 cm
Lovers II[29] 1928 National Gallery of Australia Oil on canvas 54 × 73 cm
Obsession[30] 1928 Nationalgalerie (Germany) Oil on canvas 81 × 116 cm
La Voix des airs[31] 1928 Buffalo AKG Art Museum; Albert H. Tracy Fund. by exchange. and George B. and Jenny R. Mathews Fund. 1976 Oil on canvas overall: 83.82 × 68.58 × 7.62 cm
The Voice of Silence (La voix du silence)[32] 1928 Worcester Art Museum; Stoddard Acquisition Fund Oil on canvas 54 × 73 cm
Flowers of the Abyss II[33] 1928 Oil on canvas 41 × 27 cm
Magic Light[34] 1928 Oil on canvas 54 × 73 cm
Six Elements[35] 1928 Philadelphia Museum of Art Oil on canvas 73 × 100 cm
Attempting the Impossible[36] 1928 Oil on canvas 116 × 81 cm
Lost World[37] 1928 Kunstmuseum Winterthur Oil on canvas 54.5 × 73.5 cm
Apparition[38] 1928 Staatsgalerie Stuttgart Oil on canvas 82.5 × 116 cm
Palace of Curtains III[39] 1928-29 Museum of Modern Art (New York. N.Y.) Oil on canvas 81.2 × 116.4 cm
Portrait of Paul-Gustave van Hecke[40] 1928 Oil on canvas 65 × 50 cm
The Lovers[41] 1928 The Museum of Modern Art; Gift of Richard S. Zeisler Oil on canvas 54 × 73.4 cm
The False Mirror[42] 1928 The Museum of Modern Art; Purchase Oil on canvas 54 × 80.9 cm
La Naissance des Fleurs 1929 Deji Art Museum, Nanjing Oil on canvas
Literal Meaning II[43] 1929 Menil Collection (Houston. Tex.) Oil on canvas 73 × 54 cm
Literal Meaning IV[44] 1929 Oil on canvas 73 × 54 cm
Literal Meaning VI[45] 1929 Oil on canvas 54 × 73 cm
The Treason of Images (This is not a Pipe)[46] 1929 Oil on canvas 55 × 72 cm
Tree of Knowledge[47] 1929 Oil on canvas 41 × 27 cm
The Eternally Obvious (L'évidence éternelle)[48] 1930 The Menil Collection Oil on five separately stretched and framed canvases mounted on acrylic sheet 167.6 × 38.1 × 55.9 cm
La clef des songes.[49] 1930 Private Collection. Vienna Oil on canvas 81 × 60 cm
Depths of the Earth[50] 1930 Oil on canvas: four canvases framed and mounted on glass 12 × 22 cm; 16 × 22 cm; 22 × 16 cm; 19 × 24 cm
Portrait of E.L.T. Mesens[51] 1930 Oil on canvas 73 × 54 cm

1931–1942: Brussels

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Image Title Year Location Medium Dimensions (cm.) Comments
Elective Affinities 1933 Private collection Oil on canvas 21 × 33 cm
The Portrait 1935 The Museum of Modern Art; Gift of Kay Sage Tanguy Oil on canvas 53.3 × 50.2 cm
Not to be Reproduced 1938 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Oil on canvas 81.3 cm × 65 cm
Time Transfixed 1938 Art Institute of Chicago Oil on canvas 147 cm × 98.7 cm
The Palace of Memories 1939 Private collection Oil on canvas 46.2 cm × 38.2 cm
The Key of the Fields[52] 1936 Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Oil on canvas 80 × 60 cm "La Clef des champs"

1943–1947: Sunlit period

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Image Title Year Location Medium Dimensions (cm.) Comments
The Rape[53] 1945 Oil on canvas "Le viol"

1947–1948: Vache period

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Image Title Year Location Medium Dimensions (cm.) Comments
Ellipse[54] 1948 Oil on canvas

1949–1960: Mature period

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Image Title Year Location Medium Dimensions (cm.) Comments
Golconda 1953 Menil Collection Oil on canvas 80 cm × 100 cm
16th September 1956 Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp Oil on canvas 115 cm × 88 cm
The Castle of the Pyrenees 1959 Israel Museum Oil on canvas 200 cm × 145 cm

1961–1967: Later years

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Image Title Year Location Medium Dimensions (cm.) Comments
High Society[55] 1962 Oil on canvas

References

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  1. ↑ "René Magritte". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  2. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Landscape".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Wreckage of the Dark".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Popular Panorama".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Silvered Chasm".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Famous Man".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Sensational News".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Desert Catapult".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Rêve d'étudiant".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Portrait of Paul Nougé".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  11. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Forest".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Table. Ocean and Fruit".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  13. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Taste for the Invisible".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  14. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Double Secret (Le double secret)".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  15. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Meaning of Night".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  16. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "The Murderous Sky (Le ciel meurtrier)".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  17. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Female Thief".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  18. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Prince of Objects".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  19. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "The Menaced Assassin".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  20. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Palace of Curtains".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  21. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Voice of Silence".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  22. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Acrobat's Ideas".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  23. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Swift Hope".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  24. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Flowers of the Abyss I".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  25. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Flood".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  26. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Acrobat's Rest".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  27. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Apparition".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  28. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Delights of Landscape".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  29. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Lovers II".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  30. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Obsession".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  31. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "La Voix des airs".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  32. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "The Voice of Silence (La voix du silence)".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  33. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Flowers of the Abyss II".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  34. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Magic Light".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  35. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Six Elements".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  36. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Attempting the Impossible".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  37. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Lost World".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  38. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Apparition".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  39. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Palace of Curtains III".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  40. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Portrait of Paul-Gustave van Hecke".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  41. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "The Lovers".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  42. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "The False Mirror".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  43. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Literal Meaning II".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  44. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Literal Meaning IV".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  45. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Literal Meaning VI".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  46. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "The Treason of Images (This is not a Pipe)".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  47. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Tree of Knowledge".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  48. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "The Eternally Obvious (L'évidence éternelle)".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  49. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "La clef des songes".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  50. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Depths of the Earth".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  51. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Portrait of E.L.T. Mesens".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  52. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "The Key of the Fields".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  53. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "The Rape (Le viol)".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  54. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "Ellipse".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  55. ↑ Magritte, René, 1898-1967. "High Society".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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