Poster di rene magritte biography

Recognition

Meantime, the bankrupt gallery's stock of or so paintings by Magritte was purchased by his friend ELT Mesens, a fellow Belgian artist and the director of what would be his future London gallery. Mesens championed Magritte's work in Britain during the s, while the artist continued to exhibit with the Surrealist group.

Further recognition came in America. In , Magritte had his first exhibition in New York, which was very successful, after which his fame was secure.

During the Second World War Magritte remained in Brussels, practising a colourful, painterly style known as his "Renoir Period".

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This was followed by other temporary interludes, including a Fauvism period in the later s, featuring works characterized by violent colour and grotesque imagery. However, in late he returned to the style and themes of his pre-war painting. In that year he gained international recognition when he agreed a contract with the New York art deale Rene Magritte Biography VONU