# Where can I works of Magritte?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-works-of-magritte/330074
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [November 8, 2005, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-works-of-magritte/330074 "2005-11-08T17:58:40Z")
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### Author:  [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2005, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-works-of-magritte/330074/1 "2005-11-08T17:58:40Z")
I am interested in seeing the work of René Magritte on exhibit. A Google search turned up lots of entries, but none relevant or current. The #1 entry was the exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, but that was in 2000 (coincidentally I was there). I live in the DC area so the Smithsonian would be a good choice. Their web sites do not catalog everything on display; the Hirshhorn site mentions Magritte but it is not clear whether that is part of their permanent collection and always on display. I also found a similar reference to the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art.
I would also consider travel to an interesting location, if I can’t find it in DC. Probably over the holidays when the kids are out of school.
Anyone had recent experience with this?
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### Author:  [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2005, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-works-of-magritte/330074/2 "2005-11-08T18:09:30Z")
The Artcyclopedia has good listings of various works and where they are: [Rene Magritte](http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/magritte_rene.html). It doesn’t list the Hirshhorn, just the National Gallery. If you follow the links, it looks like one is on display in “EB, Upr Lvl Gal 404C (West Brdg)”. (The other is a pencil drawing that probably does not go on display.)
Also, while they list the MoMA as having 7 pieces, I’m almost certain they don’t display more than one or two. (Although the website maintains that four are “on display”.)
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2005, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-works-of-magritte/330074/3 "2005-11-08T18:09:40Z")
I assume you found [this](http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/magritte_rene.html) site?
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### Author:  [@Papermache\_Prince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Papermache_Prince)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2005, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-works-of-magritte/330074/4 "2005-11-08T18:11:03Z")
I don’t suppose getting to the [San Antonio Art Museum](http://www.samuseum.org/) by November 13th is an option.
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### Author:  [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2005, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-works-of-magritte/330074/5 "2005-11-08T18:30:19Z")
Thanks for the link, I haven’t seen artcyclopedia before.
I’ll probably check out the National Gallery. I doubt I will get to San Antonio by Sunday.
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### Author:  [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2005, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-works-of-magritte/330074/6 "2005-11-09T00:17:06Z")
The US museum with the largest number of Magritte paintings in their permanent collection is probably the [Menil Collection](http://www.menil.org/home.html) in Houston, which has at least two dozen. Offhand, I suspect it may even be the largest concentration of his work normally on display anywhere in the world.
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### Author:  [@APB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/APB)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2005, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-works-of-magritte/330074/7 "2005-11-09T11:09:02Z")
The biggest collection anywhere is - not entirely surprisingly - that of [Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts](http://www.fine-arts-museum.be/) in Brussels and that will form the core of their new [Magritte Museum](http://newsunleashed.com/belgium-eyes-new-magritte-museum.html) planned for 2007.