Magritte Museum 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. Magritte Museum The Magritte Museum (, ) is a museum in Brussels, Belgium dedicated to the work of the Belgian surrealist artist, René Magritte. It is one of the constituent museums of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. The Magritte Museum opened to the public on 30 May 2009 in Brussels. Housed in the five-level neo-classical Hotel Altenloh,
Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge her models are "the very emblem of femininity which is the real subject of the painting itself".Whether her paintings were empowering others with femininity, re-conceptualizing it, making the viewer the "passive bearer of the ideas of Femininity" or portraying the close bonds that women had between family and friendships, these paintings had a profound impact on the art world. Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge (or Lydia in a Loge) is an 1879 painting by American artist Mary Cassatt. The Philadelphia Museum of Art acquired the painting in 1978 from