Magritte: A Life

Magritte: A LifeThe first major biography from the celebrated biographer of Cezanne. Rene Magritte's surreal sensibility, deadpan melodrama, and fine tuned outrageousness have all become inescapably part of our times. But these groundbreaking subversions all came from a middle class Belgian gent, who kept a modest house in a Brussels suburb and whose first one man show sold absolutely nothing. Through a deep examination of Magritte's friendships and his artistic

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