From the celebrated biographer of Cézanne and Braque, here is the first major biography of the pathbreaking, perpetually influential surrealist artist.In this thought-provoking life of René Magritte (1898?1967), Alex Danchev makes a compelling case for Magritte as the single most significant purveyor of images to the modern world. Magritte’s surreal sensibility, deadpan melodrama, and fine-tuned outrageousness have become an inescapable part of our visual landscape, through s