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ID: 500022967
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500022967
 
Record Type: Person
Magritte, René (Belgian painter, sculptor, and photographer, 1898-1967)

Note: An influential figure in Surrealism, Magritte is now regarded as possibly the most important Belgian artist of the 20th century. Inspired by the works of De Chirico, in the 1920s he began to experiment with concepts of reality in his paintings, altering form and often creating entirely new objects, giving his work the mystical look of a riddle. By 1926 he became involved with the Belgian Surrealist movement, and later lived in Paris from 1927-1930, connecting with the Surrealists in that city and painting full-time. His work began exploring a disconnect between normal objects, or between text and what is shown, as with his work "Treachery of Images" where the image of a pipe is accompanied by the text "Ceci n'est pas une pipe". Possibly drawing from his experience in advertising, his work employed standard human types, such as his businessman wearing a bowler hat, whose image appeared in numerous works. Magritte had been fairly well-known due to his association with the French Surrealists, but did not become an internationally recognized artist until 1948, when he signed a contract with New York dealer Alexander Iolas. He died in 1967, several days after the opening of a major retrospective of his work. Comment on works: surreal scenes

Names:
Magritte, René (preferred,V,index,LC,English-P,NA,U)
Magritte, René (Dutch-P,NA)
René Magritte (V,display)
Magritte, Rene (V)
Rene Magritte (V)
Magritte, Rene Francois Ghislain (V)
Rene Francois Ghislain Magritte (V)
Magritte, René-François-Ghislain (U)
Magritt, Rene (U)
מגריט, רנה (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)
Magritte, René François Ghislain (U)
Magritte (LU,U)

Nationalities:
Belgian (preferred)
French

Roles:
artist (preferred)
painter
photographer
draftsman
printmaker
sculptor
filmmaker
collagist
graphic artist
musician
cinematographer

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Lessines (Province de Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium) (inhabited place)
Died:  Schaerbeek (Bruxelles region, Belgium) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   1927-1930  Paris (Île-de-France, France) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
influenced by ....  De Chirico, Giorgio  
........................  (Italian painter, writer, and scenographer, 1888-1978) [500032635]
spouse of ....  Berger, Georgette  
................  (Belgian, wife of artist, 1901-1986) [500355453]
student of ....  Combaz, Gisbert  
..................  (Belgian painter and collector, 1869-1941) [500022324]
student of ....  Damme-Sylva, Emile van  
..................  (Belgian artist, 1853-1935) [500133632]
teacher of ....  Aliséris, Carlos  
..................  (Uruguayan painter, 1899-1974) [500371897]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Magritte, René (I)

Biographies:
(Belgian painter, sculptor, and photographer, 1898-1967) ..... [VP Preferred]
(Belgian painter, 1898-1967) ..... [Grove Art]
(Belgian sculptor, 1898-1967) ..... [RKD]
(Belgian painter, 1898-1967) ..... [IMJ]
(Unknown artist) ..... [GRISC]
(Belgian artist, 1898-1967) ..... [MoMA]
(Belgian artist, 1898-1967) ..... [PROV]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(artist) ..... [GRI Special Collections]
(artist, 1898-1967) ..... [GRL]
(Belgian painter, 1898-1967) ..... [BHA]
(French artist, 1898-1967) ..... [AVERY]
(Belgian sculptor, 1898-1967) ..... [CL-Courtauld]
(Belgian artist, 1898-1967) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(Belgian artist, 1898-1967) ..... [WCP]
(Belgian, 1898-August 1967) ..... [JPGM]
(Belgian, 1898-1967) ..... [GRLPA]
(Belgian painter, 1898-1967) ..... [PROV]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
מגריט, רנה ........ [IMJ]
....................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
Magritte ........ [PROV]
...................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Magritte, René ........ [AVERY Preferred, BHA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, IMJ Preferred, MoMA Preferred, PROV Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred]
..............................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..............................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
..............................  GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 890164
..............................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
..............................  Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 7 November 2002
..............................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
..............................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
..............................  J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)
..............................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 79086870
..............................  M. Knoedler & Co. records, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2012-)
..............................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
..............................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 51983
Magritte, Rene ........ [GRLPA Preferred, JPGM Preferred, PROV, VP]
..............................  J. Paul Getty Museum, European Drawings (1988)
..............................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Magritte, Rene Francois Ghislain ........ [CL-Courtauld Preferred, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
................................................................  Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
................................................................  Witt Library, Authority files
Magritte, René-François-Ghislain ........ [Grove Art]
....................................................................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
Magritte, René François Ghislain ........ [RKD]
................................................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 51983
Magritt, Rene ........ [GRL]
............................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 79086870
Rene Francois Ghislain Magritte ........ [VP, WL-Courtauld]
..............................................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
René Magritte ........ [AVERY, GRISC, MoMA, VP]
............................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
............................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
............................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
Rene Magritte ........ [PROV, VP]
............................  Getty Provenance Index Databases [online] (1999)
............................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)

Subject: ........ [AVERY, BHA, CL-Courtauld, Gallery Systems, GRISC, GRL, GRLPA, Grove Art, IMJ, JPGM, MoMA, PROV, RKD, VP, WCP, WL-Courtauld]
....................  Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n79086870
....................  Getty Provenance Index Databases [online] (1999)
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-)
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 7 November 2002
....................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
....................  J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)
....................  J. Paul Getty Museum, European Drawings (1988)
....................  LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n79086870
....................  M. Knoedler & Co. records, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2012-)
....................  Marks, World Artists (1984)
....................  Naylor, Contemporary Artists (1989) 1983
....................  Oxford Companion to Art (1970)
....................  Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Art (1981)
....................  Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art (1973)
....................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
....................  RILA/BHA (1975-2000)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 51983
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q7836
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
....................  Wood, Surreal Things: Surrealism and Design (2007) 354
 
Note:
English .......... [AVERY, CL-Courtauld, PROV, VP, WL-Courtauld]
.......... Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 7 November 2002
.......... LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
.......... Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
.......... Yale Dictionary of Art and Artists (2000)
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