Editing René Magritte (section)

==Magritte Museum and other collections==
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[[File:Liebenau - Die Beschaffenheit des Menschen (René Magritte 1933).jpg|thumb|The copy of Magritte's ''[[The Human Condition (Magritte)|The Human Condition]]'', on the facade of the New Middle School in Liebenau, Freistadt district.]]
The Magritte Museum opened to the public on 30 May 2009 in [[Brussels]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.musee-magritte-museum.be/en|title=Home – Magritte Museum|website=www.musee-magritte-museum.be}}</ref> Housed in the five-level neo-classical Hotel Altenloh, on the Place Royale, it displays some 200 original Magritte paintings, drawings and sculptures<ref>{{cite magazine | url=http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1901775,00.html| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090611192624/http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1901775,00.html| url-status=dead| archive-date=11 June 2009| magazine=Time | title=Two New Museums for Tintin and Magritte | date=30 May 2009 |access-date=2009-05-30}}</ref> including ''The Return'', ''Scheherazade'' and ''[[The Empire of Light]]''.<ref>Victor Zak October 2009 page 20 Westways Magazine</ref> This multidisciplinary permanent installation is the biggest Magritte archive anywhere and most of the work is directly from the collection of the artist's widow, [[Georgette Berger|Georgette Magritte]], and from [[Irène Hamoir|Irene Hamoir Scutenaire]], who was his primary collector.<ref name="Oisteanu">{{cite journal|last=Oisteanu|first=Valery|title=Magritte, Painter-Philosopher|journal=The Brooklyn Rail|date=8 July 2010|issue=July–August 2010|url=http://brooklynrail.org/2010/07/artseen/magritte-painter-philosopher}}</ref> Additionally, the museum includes Magritte's experiments with photography from 1920 on and the short Surrealist films he made from 1956 on.<ref name="Oisteanu"/>

Another museum is located at 135 Rue Esseghem in Brussels in Magritte's former home, where he lived with his wife from 1930 to 1954. ''Olympia'' (1948), a nude portrait of Magritte's wife reportedly worth about US$1.1 million, was stolen from this museum on the morning of 24 September 2009 by two armed men.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/sep/24/magritte-painting-stolen-brussels-olympia | title= Magritte painting stolen at gunpoint  | newspaper=The Guardian | date=24 September 2009 | first= Angelique | last=Chrisafis | access-date=27 November 2019 }}</ref><ref>[http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/24/magritte-painting-stolen/ NY Times]. Retrieved 24 September 2009.</ref><ref>[http://www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/989/Binnenland/article/detail/1373702/2012/01/05/Dieven-geven-gestolen-Magritte-terug.dhtml demorgen.be] retrieved 5 January 2012</ref> It was returned to the museum in January 2012, in exchange for a 50,000-Euro payment from the museum's insurer. The thieves reportedly agreed to the deal because they were unable to sell the painting on the [[black market]] due to its fame.<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/05/did-paying-a-ransom-for-a-stolen-magritte-painting-inadvertently-fund-terrorism | magazine=Vanity Fair| title=  Did Paying a Ransom for a Stolen Magritte Painting Inadvertently Fund Terrorism? |date=27 May 2021 |access-date=2021-06-07}}</ref>

The [[Menil Collection]] in Houston, Texas holds one of the most significant collections of dada and surrealist work in the United States, including dozens of oil paintings, gouaches, drawings, and bronzes by René Magritte. [[John de Menil]] and [[Dominique de Menil]] initiated and funded the [[catalogue raisonné]] of Magritte's oeuvre, published between 1992 and 1997 in five volumes, with an addendum in 2012. Major oil paintings in the Menil Collection include: ''[[The Meaning of Night (painting)|The Meaning of Night]]'' (1927), ''The Eternally Obvious'' (1930), ''The Rape'' (1934), ''[[The Listening Room]]'' (1952), and ''[[Golconda (Magritte)|Golconda]]'' (1953) which are typically exhibited a few at a time on a rotating basis with other surrealist works in the collection.<ref>The Menil Collection: [https://www.menil.org/collection/5136-surrealism Surrealism] (accessed 17 December 2020)</ref>