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Highlighting Magritte’s ability to question what we see and what we know, these stories reveal the artist’s acute awareness of the paradoxes at work within reality and the role of mystery in art and life.

A colorful painting with impressionistic brush stroke illustrating a coat and the sun, Magritte

Painting Under Crisis: Magritte and World War II

What is cheese? A reality lesson from René Magritte

Curling plant sprouting many different types of brightly colored flowers against an impressionistic sky

Finding the Fifth Season: A User’s Guide to Magritte

Surreal landscape with plants shaped like doves and a dusk street scene with a daytime sky

Panoramic Surrealism: The Enchanted Domain at SFMOMA

Street scene of a home at dusk with a lit street lamp and a bright daytime sky above

“It’s Like Being in the Picture”: The Dominion of Light at SFMOMA

A one panel ink comic: 2 clouds hover above two rocks over the sea. A speech bubble emerging from the rock on the left reads, "You make me feel ominous. In a good way."

Ali Fitzgerald’s Five Seasons of Magritte

An abstracted black and white photograph of the mirror reflection of an elderly Caucasian man wearing a bowler hat, Duane Michals

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