Belgium and Luxembourg (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

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. Woman in a Blue Dress
in Front of a Mirror (1914)
Brussels-born Rik Wouters
(1882–1916) was a sculptor
and Fauvist painter whose
fascination with the effects
of colours led him to
experi ment with
inno vative spatula
painting and other
new tech niques.


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KEY


19th–21st century


Musée Magritte: 1898–1929


Musée Magritte: 1930–1950


Musée Magritte: 1951–1967


Musée Magritte: multimedia area


Temporary exhibitions


Non exhibition space


Portrait de
Marguerite
Khnopff (1887)
An austere
representation of the
artist’s sister by the
famed Symbolist
Fernand Khnopff
(1858–1921),
captures his interest in
the mysterious nature
of the human soul.
Khnopff’s sister was a
subject of several of
his early paintings.

Draped Woman
on Steps (1957–8)
The prolific British artist
Henry Moore (1898–1986)
is the world’s most exhibited
sculptor. His character-
istic fluidity of line is
revealed along with
the tension in the
waiting figure.

GALLERY GUIDE
Access to the museums is available through
the main ticket hall of Musées Royaux des
Beaux-Arts de Belgique. The Musée Magritte
is arranged in chronological order. The
lowest underground level is a multimedia
area, showing Magritte’s films. From here,
stairs lead down to the uppermost level of
the Musée d’Art Moderne, which has been
set aside for temporary exhibitions. The
area shaded in green is the permanent
collection, which displays work from the
19th century to the present day.

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