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| Biography |
| 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 |
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Selected Exhibitions |
| 2008 |
La photographie timbree, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris |
| 2007 |
5 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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