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René Magritte

René Magritte, La Lampe philosophique (The Philosopher’s Lamp), 1936, Oil on canvas, 19 3/4 x 26 inches (50 x 66 cm), © 2026 C. Herscovici/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Courtesy Private Collection, Brussels, Kingdom of Belgium

ART CITIES:London-This Is Still Not a Pipe, The Afterlife of Magritte

René Magritte was a Belgian Surrealist whose enigmatic paintings transformed ordinary objects into unsettling visual paradoxes. Through precise, dreamlike imagery, he questioned perception, language, identity, and the relationship between images and reality. Famous for works such as “The Treachery of Images” and “The Son of Man”, Magritte developed a distinctive …