A painter who led an ordinary life that could have belonged to anyone, he painted in an uncharacteristic style that could not be attributed to anyone, but left behind many works during his lifetime that exude a strong personality that fascinates us. This exhibition traces Magritte's life-long experiment with words, ideas, and images on an unprecedented scale, with an unprecedented 400 carefully selected works.

The author is an up-and-coming curator and art historian who has worked at the Magritte Museum of Art and is in charge of several projects specializing in René Magritte. The works in this book were carefully selected from among approximately 1,700 works from his lifetime from a researcher's point of view, and were realized in collaboration with an imprint in Magritte's home country of Belgium. This is a must-see book for art fans, tracing the artist's life on a grand scale never seen before.