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 ...

Portrait of a Gentleman (wearing a bowler hat), (painting) Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery. Object Details painter McCloskey, William J. 1859-1941 Notes Moure, Nancy Dustin ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

From bowler hats to bad forgeries: new biography offers a fresh look at René Magritte’s complex life—including his dodgier side hustles ...

The Art Gallery of New South Wales is showcasing works full of the Surrealist artist's signature motifs—such as apples, pipes and bowler hats—in addition to lesser-known pieces.

It might look like a convention for Mr Benn impersonators, but these scenes were actually part of an art installation. Students from Newington College in Sydney, Australia, donned black suits and ...

The bowler hat and cane that accented Chaplin' s ... A set of original photographs of Marilyn Monroe sold for $21,250 and a painting by Frank Sinatra went for $10,625. Movies ...