This Is Still Not a Pipe: The Afterlife of Magritte

René Magritte is the focus of a new exhibition at Gagosian, running from 24 September to 12 December 2026. It's called This Is Still Not a Pipe: The Afterlife of Magritte, and it's organised with the Fondation Magritte. The show brings together painting, sculpture and works on paper from across his career, drawing on the subjects he's most known for — apples and pipes, bowler hats and cotton-cloud skies — and hangs them alongside works by more than forty artists from different generations, many of them created specifically for the show. The whole thing is set up as an installation inspired by the paradoxical side of Magritte's practice.

Among the pieces on display are Les Fleurs du voyage (1926), shown at Magritte's debut one-person show at Galerie Le Centaure in 1927; L'Ombre céleste (1927), which was in the landmark Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1936-37; and La Lampe philosophique (1936), widely understood as a conceptual self-portrait. The show also marks the anniversaries of two historical Magritte exhibitions: the 2006-07 LACMA show Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images and the 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition at the New Burlington Galleries. A fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

It's curated by Jasper Sharp and Bernard Lagrange, in collaboration with Charly Herscovici, president of the Fondation Magritte. The gallery is at 20 Grosvenor Hill, London W1K 3QD, and it's open Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm. Entry is free.