Stephen Bayley

The faceless man in the bowler hat

The great surrealist painter was also a prolific writer — whose detective stories and prose-poems (now available in English for the first time) were often as mysterious as his canvases

  • René Magritte: Selected Writings

    edited by Kathleen Rooney and Eric

    Plattner; translated by Jo Levy, pp. 384

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