A painting by the Belgian artist René Magritte has been damaged by a 5-year-old boy wielding a pine cone.

'The Castle of the Pyrenees,' which was donated to the museum in the 1980s, was damaged by a young boy who idly pierced the ...

A young museum visitor punctured one of Magritte's most iconic Surrealist canvases with a pinecone before a guard could ...

One of René Magritte's most recognisable works is undergoing restoration after a young visitor accidentally punctured the ...

René Magritte, “Forethought” (1943), oil on canvas, Koons Collection (© Charly Herscovici, Brussels / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, all images courtesy San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A René Magritte painting depicting an eerily lit streetscape sold for more than $121 million at a Christie’s auction in New York ...

The latest canvas to surface was consigned by Louise Riggio, the widow of Len Riggio, the founder of Barnes and Noble and longtime chairman of the Dia Art Foundation, who died last year, aged 83.

René Magritte’s pipe is not a pipe. It’s a painting of a pipe, a representation rather than the real thing. You can’t stuff tobacco into it, as Magritte once said. That concept is critical toward ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. This article is more than 7 years old. The Cripple is a very ...

Israeli media outlets have reported that a young child punctured René Magritte’s “The Castle of the Pyrenees” (1959) with a ...