Lecture: “The Force of These Images”: René Magritte, the de Menils, and the United States

The Menil Collection owns the largest collection of work by René Magritte outside the artist’s native Belgium. This lecture by Natalie Dupêcher, Associate Curator of Modern Art, explores the question of why. It begins with a chance visit to a New York art gallery in the late 1940s, where Houston-based art collectors John and Dominique de Menil first encountered Magritte’s work. Over the coming decades, the couple were responsible, both directly and indirectly, for purchases, exhibitions, publications and projects that brought the artist to Houston and to the center of the art world.

This program takes place in the main building, located at 1533 Sul Ross Street. As always, Menil programs are free and open to all.

You may also like the following events from The Menil Collection:

• Next Saturday, 21st June, 03:00 pm, DACAMERA Stop, Look, and Listen! in Houston
• Next Sunday, 22nd June, 03:00 pm, Curator Talk: Paul Davis on "A Surrealist Wunderkammer" in Houston
• Next month, 17th July, 08:30 pm, Film Screening: Cy Dear: A Journey Through the Life and Works of Cy Twombly in Houston

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