Move over, Picasso, van Gogh and Warhol. With an inscrutable painting, the Belgian painter breaks a nine-figure threshold at ...

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 ...

René Magritte’s L’empire des lumières (The Empire of Light), executed in 1954, fetched 121.2 million tonight at Christie’s New York. The undisputed highlight of the MICA: THE COLLECTION OF ...

An eerie nighttime streetscape below a pale blue daytime sky by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte sold for $121.2 million, a record for the artist, at an auction in New York. The painting, "The ...

A day after Sotheby’s tested the strength of the trophy market with its $65.5 million Claude Monet, rival Christie’s did one better—by auctioning off a $121.2 million René Magritte.

Still Life on a Glass Table (1971) by David Hockney Courtesy of Christie's Surrealism played a sensational role in the collection with a trio of desirable Rene Magritte paintings. First was La ...

A painting by Rene Magritte shattered an auction record for the surrealist artist on Tuesday, selling for more than $121 million at Christie's in New York. The seminal 1954 painting had been ...

With a Magritte painting estimated to sell for nearly US$100 million, drawings by pop artist Keith Haring and a rather gnarly banana, New York’s auction houses will try to shake up a stale ...

NEW YORK — An eerie nighttime streetscape below a pale blue daytime sky by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte sold for $121.2 million, a record for the artist, at an auction in New York.

Trophy paintings by René Magritte and Ed Ruscha propelled Christie’s back-to-back auctions of 20th-century art to $486 million on Tuesday night in New York. It was a shot of adrenaline that the ...

A painting by Rene Magritte shattered an auction record for the surrealist artist on Tuesday, selling for more than $121 ...