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Key
Musée Fin de Siècle:
19th–20th century
Musée Magritte: 1898–1929
Musée Magritte: 1930–1950
Musée Magritte: 1951–1967
Musée Magritte: multimedia area
Temporary exhibitions
Non-exhibition space

La Seine à la Grande-Jatte (1888)
It was in this painting that Georges Seurat first applied
his pointilism technique on a large scale; colour dots
are juxtaposed and optically fuse in the viewer's eye.

Level -4 . Woman in a Blue Dress in
Front of a Mirror (1914)
Brussels-born Rik Wouters
(1882–1916) was a sculptor
and Fauvist painter whose
fascination with the effects
of colours led him
to experi ment with
inno vative spatula
painting and other
new tech niques.

Level -3
Level -6
Portrait de Marguerite
Khnopff (1887)
An austere representation
of the artist’s sister by the
famed Symbolist Fernand
Khnopff (1858–1921),
captures his interest in
the mysterious nature
of the human soul.
Khnopff’s sister was a
subject of several of
his early paintings.

Level -5
Gallery Guide
Access to the museums is available through the
Level -8 main ticket hall of Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts
de Belgique. The Musée Magritte is arranged in
chronological order. The lowest underground level
is a multimedia area, showing Magritte’s films. From
here, stairs lead down to the uppermost level of the
Level -7 Musée Fin de Siècle, which has been set aside for
temporary exhibitions. The area shaded in green is
the permanent collection, which displays work from
the end of the 19th and start of the 20th century.

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