René François Ghislain Magritte (November 21, 1898 – August 15, 1967) was a surrealist artist of Belgian origin. He became famous for his surrealist artworks that were regarded as thought-provoking and witty. His art often challenges observers’ perceptions of what is real. Learn more »

Paintings by René Magritte in Chronological Order

Landscape, 1920	Portrait of Pierre Bourgeois, 1920	Portrait of Pierre Broodcoorens, 1921
Georgette at the Piano, 1923	Modern, 1923	Self portrait, 1923
Youth, 1924	Advertisment for “Norine”, c.1925	Advertisment for “Norine”, c.1925
Bather, 1925	Blue cinema, 1925	Nocturne, 1925
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The window, 1925	A famous man, 1926	After the Water, the Clouds, 1926
Checkmate, 1926	Landscape, 1926	Midnight marriage, 1926
Popular panorama, 1926	Primevera, 1926	The birth of idol, 1926
The catapult of desert, 1926	The conqueror, 1926	The dawn of Cayenne, 1926
The difficult crossing, 1926	The face of genius, 1926	The lost jockey, 1926
The musings of the solitary walker, 1926	The sensational news, 1926	The silver gap, 1926
Threshold of forest, 1926	Untitled, 1926	Untitled collage, c.1926
Wreackage of the shadow, 1926	A panic in the Middle Ages, 1927	A taste of the invisible, 1927
Faraway looks, c.1927	Imp of the Perverse, 1927	One night museum, 1927
The beneficial promise, 1927	The comic spirit, 1927	The cultivation of Ideas, 1927
The double secret, 1927	The end of contemplation, 1927	The female thief, 1927
The finery of the storm, 1927	The forest, 1927	The interpretation of dreams, 1927
The man of the sea, 1927	The meaning of night, 1927	The muscles of the sky, 1927
The pipe, 1927	The reckless sleeper, 1927	The secret player, 1927
Young girl eating a bird (The pleasure), 1927	Intermission, 1928	Man reading a newspaper, 1928
Secret Life IV, 1928	Swift Hope, 1928	The delights of landscape, 1928
The empty mask, 1928	The false mirror, 1928	The familiar objects, 1928
The heart of the matter, 1928	The hunters at the edge of night, 1928	The invention of life, 1928
The lining of sleep, 1928	The lovers, 1928	The lovers, 1928
The obsession, 1928	The submissive reader, 1928	The voice of space, 1928
The living mirror, 1929	The tree of knowledge, 1929	Annunciation, 1930
Pink Belles, Tattered Skies, 1930	Portrait of E.L.T. Mesens, 1930	Project for a mural, Norine House, Brussels, c.1931
Project for a mural, Norine House, Brussels, c.1931	The fair captive, 1931	A storm, 1932
Elective Affinities, 1933	The human condition, 1933	Unexpected answer, 1933
Georgette Magritte, 1934	The red model, 1934	Composition on a seashore, 1935
Eternity, 1935	Perpetual motion, 1935	Portrait, 1935
Poster for cigarettes “Belga”, 1935	The amorous perpective, 1935	The discovery of fire, 1935
The human condition, 1935	Clairvoyance (Self Portrait), 1936	Forbidden literature (The use of the Word), 1936
Meditation, 1936	Philosopher’s lamp, 1936	The Key to the Fields, 1936
The revealing of the present, 1936	Black Flag, 1937	Georgette, 1937
In Praise of Dialectics, 1937	Not to be reproduced, 1937	The future of statues, 1937
The Pleasure Principle (Portrait of Edward James), 1937	The therapeutist, 1937	The white race, 1937
Youth Illustrated, 1938	Project of poster “The center of textile workers in Belgium (celebration on 18th september)”, 1938	Project of poster “The center of textile workers in Belgium (to reduce working hours)”, 1938
The beyond, 1938	The domain of Arnheim, 1938	Time transfixed, 1938
The glass house, 1939	The Ladder Of Fire, 1939	The present, 1939
The victory, 1939	Homesickness, 1940	Plain of Air, 1940
The Return, 1940	Deep waters, 1941	Companions of Fear, 1942
Early morning, 1942	Island of Treasures, 1942	Call of peaks, 1943
The fire, 1943	The first day, 1943	The Return of the Flame, 1943
The smile, 1943	Favorable omens, 1944	The clearing, 1944
The domain of Arnheim, 1944	Alice in Wonderland, 1945	Applied dialectics, 1945
Natural encounters, 1945	Poster – Exciting perfumes by Mem, 1946	Soir d’orage, strange perfume by Mem, 1946
The cut-glass bath, 1946	The Intelligence, 1946	The taste of tears, 1946
Cicero, 1947	Poster of International festival of cinema and fine arts in Brussels (1947), 1947	The fair captive, 1947
The liberator, 1947	The pictorial content, 1947	The Rights of Man, 1947
The tow plug, 1947	The triumphant march, 1947	A stroke of luck, 1948
Depths of pleasure, 1948	God’s Salon, 1948	Jean-Marie, 1948
Memory, 1948	Memory, 1948	Pom’po pom’po pon po pon pon, 1948
Prince charming, 1948	Prince Charming, 1948	Pure reason, 1948
The ellipse, 1948	The famine, 1948	The imaginative faculty, 1948
The lost jockey, 1948	The maimed, c.1948	The mark, 1948
The psychologist, 1948	The song of love, 1948	The staging post, 1948
The Taste of Sorrow, 1948	The treachery of images, 1948	The voice of blood, 1948
Titania, 1948	Elementary cosmogony, 1949	Perspective: Madame Recamier by David, 1949
The domain of Arnheim, 1949	Fashionable people, 1950	Manet’s Balcony, 1950
Mental complacency, 1950	Perspective: Madame Récamier de David, 1950	Sheherazade, 1950
The art of conversation, 1950	The art of conversation, 1950	The art of conversation, 1950
The hesitation waltz, 1950	The ignorant fairy, 1950	The Labours of Alexander, 1950
The legend of the centuries, 1950	The survivor, 1950	The wasted footsteps, 1950
Almayer’s folly, 1951	Pandora’s Box, 1951	Song of violet, 1951
Memory of a Voyage, 1952	Personal values, 1952	The blow to the heart, 1952
The explanation, 1952	The Listening Room, 1952	The magician, 1952
Golconda, 1953	The happy hand, 1953	The seducer, 1953
Invisible world, 1954	The empire of lights, 1954	The evening gown, 1954
The great century, 1954	The schoolmaster, 1954	Banquet, 1955
Memory of a journey, 1955	Memory of a Voyage, 1955	The fanatics, 1955
The masterpiece or the mysteries of the horizon, 1955	The spot on the map, 1955	Where Euclide walked, 1955
Anne-Marie Crowet, 1956	Sixteenth of September, 1956	The poet recompensed, 1956
Territory, 1957	The Prepared Bouquet, 1957	Clear ideas, 1958
Harry Torczyner (Justice has been done), 1958	Hegel’s Holiday, 1958	The fountain of youth, YEAR
The golden legend, 1958	The Battle of the Argonne, 1959	The Castle of the Pyrenees, 1959
The flash, 1959	The glass key, 1959	The month of the grape harvest, 1959
The voice of blood, 1959	Force of habit, 1960	The anger of gods, 1960
The heartstrings, 1960	The Postcard, 1960	The presence of spirit, 1960
The tomb of the wrestlers, 1960	Portrait of Stephy Langui, 1961	The good season, 1961
The mysterious barricades, 1961	Beautiful world, 1962	High Society, 1962
Homage to Alphonse Allais, 1962	Representation, 1962	The domain of Arnheim, 1962
The Nightingale, 1962	The spirit of adventure, 1962	Forest of Paimpont, 1963
The big family, 1963	The great table, 1963	The infinite recognition, 1963
The looking glass, 1963	The natural graces, 1963	The search for truth, 1963
A friend of order, 1964	Chorus of the sphinx, 1964	Fine realities, 1964
Gioconda, 1964	Man in a Bowler Hat, 1964	The Son of Man, 1964
The Great War, 1964	The Great War, 1964	The land of miracles, 1964
The natural graces, 1964	This is Not an Apple, 1964	Cicero, c.1965
Good faith, 1965	Spring, 1965	The blank signature, 1965
The connivance, 1965	The fair captive, 1965	The great table, c.1965
The idol, 1965	Decalcomania, 1966	The endearing truth, 1966
The happy donor, 1966	The king’s museum, 1966	The Pilgrim, 1966
The promise, 1966	The treachery of images (This is not a pipe), 1966	The two mysteries, 1966
The age of enlightenment, 1967	The beautiful relations, 1967	The blank page, 1967
The Empire of Lights (unfinished), 1967	The Labours of Alexander, 1967	The natural graces, 1967
The white race, 1967	A little of the bandit’s soul	Collage
Souvenir from travels	The domain of Arnheim	The therapeutist