The Art of Rene Magritte

Rene Magritte (1898 – 1967) was a Belgian painter. He was one of the leading figures of the Surrealist movement. Most of his career was spent in Brussels, apart from the three years he lived in the suburbs of Paris. His alter ego, who frequently appears in his pictures, was an anonymous bowler-hatted clerk, who lived as Magritte did – in a Brussels suburb.(Magritte, Rene. The Son of Man c.