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Belgian Surrealist René Magritte's work has always held our attention and continues to intrigue.

‘The Castle of the Pyrenees,’ the great surrealist René Magritte’s famed painting is the focus of a new grand exhibition at the Israel Museum, bringing back the Belgian genius who visited Israel in 1966

Unlike his surrealist contemporaries, Rene Magritte tended to keep Freud at a distance from his work — though few artists offer as much scope for armchair analysis. Speaking in 1961, he observed that “psychology doesn’t interest me. It claims to reveal the flow of our thoughts and emotions. Its efforts are contrary to what I know; it seeks to explain a mystery. There is only one mystery: the world.” One conclusion in reading Alex Danchev’s recreation of Magritte’s formative years, in this diligent and insightful biography (almost complete at the time of Danchev’s death in 2016), ...

This insightful biography of the surrealist painter contends that to his peers he was a hero and outsider who resisted symbolic readings of his art

The theft of a deeply personal painting by the Belgian artist was a national tragedy. Now an investigation points to a tragedy greater still.