The Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition, Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–1938… “is the first to focus exclusively on the breakthrough Surrealist years of René Magritte, creator of some of the 20th century’s most extraordinary images. Beginning in 1926, when Magritte first aimed to create paintings that would, in his words, “challenge the real world,” and concluding in 1938—a historically and biographically significant moment just prior to the outbreak of World War II—the exhibition traces central strategies and themes from the most inventive and experimental period in the artist’s prolific career. “
Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–1938
Museum of Modern Art, NYC