Magritte Museum
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The Magritte Museum is an art museum in the Royal Quarter of Brussels, Belgium, dedicated to the work of the surrealist artist René Magritte. It is one of the constituent museums of the Royal Museums
Hôtel du Lotto, home of the Magritte Museum
The Empire of Light
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The Empire of Light is the title of a succession of paintings by René Magritte. They depict the paradoxical image of a nocturnal landscape beneath a sunlit sky. He explored the theme in 27 paintings f
Magritte Museum
…Museums of Fine Arts. The Magritte Museum displays some 200 original Magritte paintings, drawings and sculptures, including The Return, Scheherazade and The Empire of Light. This multidisciplinary permanent installation is the biggest Magritte archive anywhere. The works on display come mainly from donations and the bequests…
The Empire of Light (1954), Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
The Empire of Light II (1950), oil on canvas, 79 x 99 cm. Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Empire of Light (1954), oil on canvas, 195.4 x 131.2 cm., Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
John Atkinson Grimshaw, Boar Lane, Leeds, 1880s