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
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| Landscape, 1920 | Portrait of Pierre Bourgeois, 1920 | Portrait of Pierre Broodcoorens, 1921 |
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| Georgette at the Piano, 1923 | Modern, 1923 | Self portrait, 1923 |
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| Youth, 1924 | Advertisment for “Norine”, c.1925 | Advertisment for “Norine”, c.1925 |
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| Bather, 1925 | Blue cinema, 1925 | Nocturne, 1925 |
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| The window, 1925 | A famous man, 1926 | After the Water, the Clouds, 1926 |
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| Checkmate, 1926 | Landscape, 1926 | Midnight marriage, 1926 |
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| Popular panorama, 1926 | Primevera, 1926 | The birth of idol, 1926 |
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| The catapult of desert, 1926 | The conqueror, 1926 | The dawn of Cayenne, 1926 |
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| The difficult crossing, 1926 | The face of genius, 1926 | The lost jockey, 1926 |
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| The musings of the solitary walker, 1926 | The sensational news, 1926 | The silver gap, 1926 |
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| Threshold of forest, 1926 | Untitled, 1926 | Untitled collage, c.1926 |
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| Wreackage of the shadow, 1926 | A panic in the Middle Ages, 1927 | A taste of the invisible, 1927 |
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| Faraway looks, c.1927 | Imp of the Perverse, 1927 | One night museum, 1927 |
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| The beneficial promise, 1927 | The comic spirit, 1927 | The cultivation of Ideas, 1927 |
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| The double secret, 1927 | The end of contemplation, 1927 | The female thief, 1927 |
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| The finery of the storm, 1927 | The forest, 1927 | The interpretation of dreams, 1927 |
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| The man of the sea, 1927 | The meaning of night, 1927 | The muscles of the sky, 1927 |
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| The pipe, 1927 | The reckless sleeper, 1927 | The secret player, 1927 |
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| Young girl eating a bird (The pleasure), 1927 | Intermission, 1928 | Man reading a newspaper, 1928 |
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| Secret Life IV, 1928 | Swift Hope, 1928 | The delights of landscape, 1928 |
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| The empty mask, 1928 | The false mirror, 1928 | The familiar objects, 1928 |
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| The heart of the matter, 1928 | The hunters at the edge of night, 1928 | The invention of life, 1928 |
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| The lining of sleep, 1928 | The lovers, 1928 | The lovers, 1928 |
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| The obsession, 1928 | The submissive reader, 1928 | The voice of space, 1928 |
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| The living mirror, 1929 | The tree of knowledge, 1929 | Annunciation, 1930 |
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| Pink Belles, Tattered Skies, 1930 | Portrait of E.L.T. Mesens, 1930 | Project for a mural, Norine House, Brussels, c.1931 |
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| Project for a mural, Norine House, Brussels, c.1931 | The fair captive, 1931 | A storm, 1932 |
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| Elective Affinities, 1933 | The human condition, 1933 | Unexpected answer, 1933 |
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| Georgette Magritte, 1934 | The red model, 1934 | Composition on a seashore, 1935 |
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| Eternity, 1935 | Perpetual motion, 1935 | Portrait, 1935 |
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| Poster for cigarettes “Belga”, 1935 | The amorous perpective, 1935 | The discovery of fire, 1935 |
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| The human condition, 1935 | Clairvoyance (Self Portrait), 1936 | Forbidden literature (The use of the Word), 1936 |
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| Meditation, 1936 | Philosopher’s lamp, 1936 | The Key to the Fields, 1936 |
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| The revealing of the present, 1936 | Black Flag, 1937 | Georgette, 1937 |
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| In Praise of Dialectics, 1937 | Not to be reproduced, 1937 | The future of statues, 1937 |
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| The Pleasure Principle (Portrait of Edward James), 1937 | The therapeutist, 1937 | The white race, 1937 |
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| 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 |
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| The beyond, 1938 | The domain of Arnheim, 1938 | Time transfixed, 1938 |
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| The glass house, 1939 | The Ladder Of Fire, 1939 | The present, 1939 |
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| The victory, 1939 | Homesickness, 1940 | Plain of Air, 1940 |
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| The Return, 1940 | Deep waters, 1941 | Companions of Fear, 1942 |
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| Early morning, 1942 | Island of Treasures, 1942 | Call of peaks, 1943 |
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| The fire, 1943 | The first day, 1943 | The Return of the Flame, 1943 |
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| The smile, 1943 | Favorable omens, 1944 | The clearing, 1944 |
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| The domain of Arnheim, 1944 | Alice in Wonderland, 1945 | Applied dialectics, 1945 |
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| Natural encounters, 1945 | Poster – Exciting perfumes by Mem, 1946 | Soir d’orage, strange perfume by Mem, 1946 |
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| The cut-glass bath, 1946 | The Intelligence, 1946 | The taste of tears, 1946 |
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| Cicero, 1947 | Poster of International festival of cinema and fine arts in Brussels (1947), 1947 | The fair captive, 1947 |
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| The liberator, 1947 | The pictorial content, 1947 | The Rights of Man, 1947 |
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| The tow plug, 1947 | The triumphant march, 1947 | A stroke of luck, 1948 |
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| Depths of pleasure, 1948 | God’s Salon, 1948 | Jean-Marie, 1948 |
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| Memory, 1948 | Memory, 1948 | Pom’po pom’po pon po pon pon, 1948 |
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| Prince charming, 1948 | Prince Charming, 1948 | Pure reason, 1948 |
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| The ellipse, 1948 | The famine, 1948 | The imaginative faculty, 1948 |
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| The lost jockey, 1948 | The maimed, c.1948 | The mark, 1948 |
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| The psychologist, 1948 | The song of love, 1948 | The staging post, 1948 |
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| The Taste of Sorrow, 1948 | The treachery of images, 1948 | The voice of blood, 1948 |
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| Titania, 1948 | Elementary cosmogony, 1949 | Perspective: Madame Recamier by David, 1949 |
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| The domain of Arnheim, 1949 | Fashionable people, 1950 | Manet’s Balcony, 1950 |
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| Mental complacency, 1950 | Perspective: Madame Récamier de David, 1950 | Sheherazade, 1950 |
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| The art of conversation, 1950 | The art of conversation, 1950 | The art of conversation, 1950 |
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| The hesitation waltz, 1950 | The ignorant fairy, 1950 | The Labours of Alexander, 1950 |
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| The legend of the centuries, 1950 | The survivor, 1950 | The wasted footsteps, 1950 |
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| Almayer’s folly, 1951 | Pandora’s Box, 1951 | Song of violet, 1951 |
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| Memory of a Voyage, 1952 | Personal values, 1952 | The blow to the heart, 1952 |
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| The explanation, 1952 | The Listening Room, 1952 | The magician, 1952 |
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| Golconda, 1953 | The happy hand, 1953 | The seducer, 1953 |
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| Invisible world, 1954 | The empire of lights, 1954 | The evening gown, 1954 |
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| The great century, 1954 | The schoolmaster, 1954 | Banquet, 1955 |
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| Memory of a journey, 1955 | Memory of a Voyage, 1955 | The fanatics, 1955 |
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| The masterpiece or the mysteries of the horizon, 1955 | The spot on the map, 1955 | Where Euclide walked, 1955 |
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| Anne-Marie Crowet, 1956 | Sixteenth of September, 1956 | The poet recompensed, 1956 |
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| Territory, 1957 | The Prepared Bouquet, 1957 | Clear ideas, 1958 |
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| Harry Torczyner (Justice has been done), 1958 | Hegel’s Holiday, 1958 | The fountain of youth, YEAR |
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| The golden legend, 1958 | The Battle of the Argonne, 1959 | The Castle of the Pyrenees, 1959 |
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| The flash, 1959 | The glass key, 1959 | The month of the grape harvest, 1959 |
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| The voice of blood, 1959 | Force of habit, 1960 | The anger of gods, 1960 |
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| The heartstrings, 1960 | The Postcard, 1960 | The presence of spirit, 1960 |
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| The tomb of the wrestlers, 1960 | Portrait of Stephy Langui, 1961 | The good season, 1961 |
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| The mysterious barricades, 1961 | Beautiful world, 1962 | High Society, 1962 |
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| Homage to Alphonse Allais, 1962 | Representation, 1962 | The domain of Arnheim, 1962 |
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| The Nightingale, 1962 | The spirit of adventure, 1962 | Forest of Paimpont, 1963 |
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| The big family, 1963 | The great table, 1963 | The infinite recognition, 1963 |
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| The looking glass, 1963 | The natural graces, 1963 | The search for truth, 1963 |
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| A friend of order, 1964 | Chorus of the sphinx, 1964 | Fine realities, 1964 |
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| Gioconda, 1964 | Man in a Bowler Hat, 1964 | The Son of Man, 1964 |
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| The Great War, 1964 | The Great War, 1964 | The land of miracles, 1964 |
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| The natural graces, 1964 | This is Not an Apple, 1964 | Cicero, c.1965 |
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| Good faith, 1965 | Spring, 1965 | The blank signature, 1965 |
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| The connivance, 1965 | The fair captive, 1965 | The great table, c.1965 |
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| The idol, 1965 | Decalcomania, 1966 | The endearing truth, 1966 |
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| The happy donor, 1966 | The king’s museum, 1966 | The Pilgrim, 1966 |
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| The promise, 1966 | The treachery of images (This is not a pipe), 1966 | The two mysteries, 1966 |
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| The age of enlightenment, 1967 | The beautiful relations, 1967 | The blank page, 1967 |
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| The Empire of Lights (unfinished), 1967 | The Labours of Alexander, 1967 | The natural graces, 1967 |
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| The white race, 1967 | A little of the bandit’s soul | Collage |
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| Souvenir from travels | The domain of Arnheim | The therapeutist |
What museum is the blow to the heart at?
The Blow to the Heart by Rene Magritte is owned by a private collector and not in any museum. The last known public exhibit of the painting was in Brussels at the Musée royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in 1998.
Do you have any similar information on The Female Thief? Thanks
Its in magritte museum in brussels
What’s is the painting called that has him choose between 2 faces hanged next to an umbrella and top hat with his back to us.
what is the name of the painting with a woman naked from the waist up. she has a white dove in one hand and an egg in the other. the background is blue sky with white clouds. there are twisty turrets over at the right of the painting. i bought this painting back in 1975.