Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a story that feels more than a bit surreal, a recently discovered drawing by René Magritte that was picked up on eBay for just ...

René Magritte, “Forethought” (1943), oil on canvas, Koons Collection (© Charly Herscovici, Brussels / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, all images courtesy San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) In ...

Like the indelible dreams that the movement’s artists displayed on canvas, Surrealism refuses to die. Launched nearly a century ago, with its techniques long absorbed by mainstream media and ...

In October, 1924, André Breton published the Surrealist Manifesto in Paris, demanding a break from the conformities of the past and arguing for an art that pulled liberally from Freud, Dadaism, and ...

A René Magritte painting depicting an eerily lit streetscape sold for more than $121 million at a Christie’s auction in New York on Tuesday –– surpassing its $95 million estimate and smashing the ...

Any parent could tell you that. The things they say and do can be completely off the wall and reflect a different reality than the one that we experience — and then we train it out of them, and wonder ...

LONDON — A major work by surrealist painter René Magritte that hasn’t been shown in public for a quarter century could fetch 50 million pounds ($64 million) at auction next month. Christie’s auction ...

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BASEL, Switzerland — Visitors who remember the “Keystone Kops” are sure to be baffled when they see the Rene Magritte painting for the first time: The image of a woman’s nightgown hanging alone in a ...

The Surrealists talked a good picture, and René Magritte was more a visual punster than a virtuoso painter. His art, Alex Danchev writes in this thoroughly and gruesomely entertaining biography, is “a ...

Like the indelible dreams that the movement’s artists displayed on canvas, surrealism refuses to die. Launched nearly a century ago, with its techniques long absorbed by mainstream media and ...