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René Magritte’s ‘L’empire des lumières’ sells for record $121 million

(CNN) — A René Magritte painting depicting an eerily lit streetscape sold for more than $121 million at a Christie’s auction in New York on Tuesday –– surpassing its $95 million estimate and smashing ...
Artnet

Magritte’s Surrealist Masterpiece Sets $121.2 Million Auction Record

René Magritte’s famous painting L’empire des Lumières (1954) fetched $121.2 million at Christie’s in New York on Tuesday night, setting a new auction record for the Belgian Surrealist painter. The ...
CNN

Rare Magritte painting could fetch a record $95 million at New York auction

A rare painting from René Magritte’s famous “L’empire des lumières” series is estimated to sell for more than $95 million at Christie’s New York this fall, a sum that would break the Surrealist artist ...
Artnet

Iconic Magritte Work Could Set a New Record at Christie’s

In October, 1924, André Breton published the Surrealist Manifesto in Paris, demanding a break from the conformities of the past and arguing for an art that pulled liberally from Freud, Dadaism, and ...
Barron's

René Magritte’s 1961 Masterpiece ‘L’empire des lumières’ Could Fetch $60 Million at Its Debut Auction

Belgian surrealist René Magritte’s masterpiece L’empire des lumières, which was painted in 1961 for Anne-Marie Gillion Crowet and has been kept in her family since, will make its auction debut in ...