Rene Russo referenced the bowler hat painting in the last line of The Thomas Crown Affair. The bowler hats. Say those three words to anyone who’s watched 1999’s The Thomas Crown Affair and ...

A mystery man in a bowler hat spotted photographing Banksy's latest artwork before it was even revealed is sparking rumors he could be the elusive street artist himself.

Credit: Art Gallery of NSW. The bowler hat theme appears more than 50 times in his work between 1926 and 1966, making it one of the artist’s most identifiable motifs.

Bowler hats were first designed in 1849 for the British nobleman Edward Coke, but they became so popular with the growing bourgeoisie that they were soon ubiquitous in the U.K.

In the final scenes, Banning goes to Crown’s apartment but finds only a man in a bowler hat, who presents her with a painting that she once told Crown she preferred over the Monet.

The oil painting is often grouped with two other works that were also created in 1964. The first is Magritte’s Man in the Bowler Hat , which has a similar figure whose face is obscured by a ...

With camera hidden in his bowler hat, German photographer captured drama behind the scenes By BRIAN PIPER Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Assistant Curator of Photographs, NOMA Nov 9, 2020 ...

The surrealist turned pipes, apples, clouds and men in bowler hats into existential questions. In the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Magritte exhibition, you too can ponder the nature of reality in ...

Though perhaps best known for his surrealist depictions of bowler hat-wearing men, Magritte spent a period of 15 years exploring the fleeting transition from day to night in landscape painting.