René Magritte used paper to explore his ideas. His visual language emerged from the sketches he made in the corners of letters or notepads. His ideas germinated in correspondence. The gouache versions he made of existing oil paintings added a new facet to the works. And his commercial illustrations taught him to assess the effect of images.

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This comprehensive publication brings together for the first time more than 200 works on paper by René Magritte, most of which have remained unpublished.