René Magritte is the biggest Magritte archive anywhere and most of the work is directly from the collection of the artist's widow, Georgette Magritte, and from Irene Hamoir Scutenaire, who was his primary collector. Additionally, the museum includes Magritte's experiments with photography from 1920 on and the short surrealist films he made from 1956 on. Another museum is located at 135 Rue Esseghem in Brussels in Magritte's former home, where he lived with his wife from 1930 to 1954. A painting, "Olympia" (1948), a nude portrait of Magritte's wife by Magritte, was stolen from this museum on the morning of 24 September
The Temptation of Saint Anthony (Ernst painting) The Temptation of Saint Anthony (Ernst painting) The Temptation of Saint Anthony is a 1945 painting by the German artist Max Ernst. It depicts the desert father Anthony the Great as he is tormented by demons in Egypt. The painting was made for the "Bel Ami International Art Competition", where 12 surrealist and magic realist painters were asked to submit a painting to be used in Albert Lewin's film "The Private Affairs of Bel Ami", based on Guy de Maupassant's novel "Bel Ami". The painting, which should be 36 × 48 inches and on the subject of the temptation of