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René Magritte

La Grande Famille, 1996

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1898: Born in the small town of Lessines, a cosmopolitan area of Belgium
1916 - 1918: Studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels
1922: Married Georgette Berger
1923: Sells his first painting, a portrait of the singer Evelyne Brélia
1925: Painted first major surrealist work, 'Le Jockey Perdu' (The Lost Jockey)
1927: Magritte and Georgette move to Paris to be closer to the Surrealists and becomes friends with Andre Breton
1967: Died in Brussels, August 15

2008: La photographie timbree, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris
2007: 25 Years Brusberg Berlin, Galerie Brusberg Berlin, Berlin
2006: Degas to Picasso - Modern Masters, MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
2005: The Eye of the Collector, the Wishes of the Donor, the Spirit of the Philanthrop, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
2004: The Invisible Revealed, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
2003: Dada and Surrealism, Bildmuseet, Umea
2002: Behind the Surrealist Curtain: Sex, Sensuality and Silence
2001: In the Rough, Museu Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Porto
2000: Surreale Welten - Von Piranesi bis Dubuffect, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
1999: Surrealism - Two Private Eyes, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
1967: exhibition in the Galerie Iolas in Paris
1965: retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
1927: first solo exhibition at the Galérie Le Centaure

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