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
A Family (painting) in so far as she has had the opportunity to judge has reacted similarly. Despite the strictures of the "Evening Herald" it is satisfactory to note that the exhibition itself has been an outstanding success in every respect.' A Family (painting) A Family is a 1951 oil on canvas painting by Irish artist Louis le Brocquy. It depicts a woman half-laying on a table and gazing out at the viewer accompanied by a cat in the foreground, a man sitting hunched over in the background, and a child holding a bouquet of flowers on one side, gazing at the woman.