Person: Rene Magritte

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

home and gardens

Fine Art: Magritte's dove of peace is an image for our times

Des O'Sullivan previews the London sales, including Christie's Art of the Surreal event

home and gardens

Exciting London art-selling season approaches fast

business

Lifting the veil: Behind the Iran curtain

comment-analysis

Talks on Brexit document just the beginning for David Cameron

travel

24 hours in Brussels, the capital of Belgium

world

Soros, 83, ties knot with third wife

A critic keeping it surreal

The late John Updike’s essays on Joan Miro and other artists are collected in Always Looking, Carl Dixon reports

Fri, 11 Jan, 2013

Rotterdam art thieves take seven masterpieces

Seven paintings by some of the world's most famous artists have been stolen from an exhibition in the Netherlands.

Tue, 16 Oct, 2012

Picasso portrait fetches £25m

A Pablo Picasso portrait of his teenage mistress has sold for £25.2m (€29.7m) at auction.

Wed, 09 Feb, 2011

Lisbon by any other name is still a constitution

ONE of the world’s most famous surrealist paintings, by Belgian artist René Magritte, depicts a pipe with the words underneath: “ceci n’est pas une pipe” — this is not a pipe.

Thu, 05 Jun, 2008