Belgian Surrealist, in Paris from 1927, who painted ordinary objects in impossible arrangements and made the picture itself the subject. He met Salvador Dalí in Paris in the spring of 1929 and spent that August with him at Cadaqués.
Magritte was born at Lessines in Hainaut on 21 November 1898 and trained in Brussels. He moved to the outskirts of Paris in 1927, joined the Surrealist circle around André Breton and Paul Éluard, and went back to Brussels in 1930, where he stayed for the rest of his life. He worked in a suit, in his dining room, and produced the images most people now picture when they hear the word Surrealism: the bowler hat, the pipe that is not a pipe, the room filling with an apple.
He belongs in these pages for the summer of 1929. He and Dalí met in Paris that spring, and in August Magritte travelled to Cadaqués with his wife Georgette at Dalí's invitation. The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, who exhibited the two painters together, call that summer decisive for both. It is also the summer Gala stayed behind when the Éluards went home.
Met · 1929
They met in Paris in the spring of 1929, and that August Magritte travelled to Cadaqués with his wife Georgette at Dalí's invitation. The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, who showed the two painters together, call the visit decisive.
Met · 1929
René and Georgette Magritte travelled with Gala, Paul Éluard, Cécile and Camille Goemans to visit Salvador Dalí at Cadaqués in August 1929.
Art & literary movement · 1924–1966
He moved to the outskirts of Paris in 1927 and worked alongside the group around André Breton until 1930, then took Surrealism back to Brussels and painted it there for the rest of his life.
Associated with · 1927
He moved to the outskirts of Paris in 1927 and worked alongside the group around André Breton until 1930, then took Surrealism back to Brussels and painted it there for the rest of his life.
Met · 1929
They met in Paris in the spring of 1929, and that August Magritte travelled to Cadaqués with his wife Georgette at Dalí's invitation. The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, who showed the two painters together, call the visit decisive.
Visited · 1929
René Magritte travelled to Cadaqués at Salvador Dalí's invitation in August 1929 and painted The Threatening Weather during the stay.
Met · 1929
René and Georgette Magritte travelled with Gala, Paul Éluard, Cécile and Camille Goemans to visit Salvador Dalí at Cadaqués in August 1929.
