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Welcome to the Magic in Fine Art page.

Here you will find paintings and other
works of art that depict stage, parlor and
street conjurers as well as other
magicians.

Please email us to recommend additions to
this digital collection.
Magicians in Fine Art
The Card Trick
Gerard Portielje
Belgian Academic Classical Painter
(1856-1929)
Card Game
François-Joseph Bosio
French Sculptor
(1768-1845)
The Conjurer
Hieronymus Bosch
Netherlands Northern Renaissance Artist
(1450-1516)
Museum, Saint-Germain-en-Laye
A Street Magician Near the Place
De La Bastille Paris
France
French Parlour Trick of Removing a Coin from
Under Someone's Nose Without Touching It
France
Magicians at the Carnival in Berlin
1836
Germany
Lane, the Conjurer, Who Appeared
at Bartholomew Fair in the Late
18th Century
Old Harry with His Raree Show:
a Conjuror and His Table of
Tricks
Robert Graves
Line Engraver
(1798-1873)
Two Venetian Magicians
Sawing a Woman in Half
Jan van Grevenbroeck
Italian Painter
(1731-1807)
Maskelyne and Cook's Thought-
Reading Automaton Psycho
Mr. Maskelyne
The Magician of Hivaoa 1902
Paul Gauguin
French Post-Impressionist Painter
(1848-1903)
Musee d'Art moderne et d'Art
contemporain, Liege, Belgium
L'Apparition 1902
Paul Gauguin
French Post-Impressionist Painter
(1848-1903)
Good Fellowship
aka Sleight of Hand
William Verplanck Birney
Academic Realism Painter
(c.1858-1909)
The Magician (Self-Portrait with Four Arms)
1952
Rene Magritte
Belgian Surrealist Painter (1898-1967)
The Traveling Magician
John Rogers
American Sculptor
(1829-1904)
Collection of The New York Historical Society
The Magician
Alexandre Evariste Fragonard
French Painter, Sculptor & Printmaker
(1780-1850)
The Magician
c.1996
Patrick Milbourn
American portrait and landscape painter
White Top Hat (Magician Still Life), 1933
Frantisek Tichy
Czech modern artist
(1896–1961)
National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic
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