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

René Magritte, “L’empire des lumières” (1954), oil on canvas, 57 1/4 x 44 1/2 inches (145.4 x 113 cm) (image courtesy Christie’s, New York) As this year’s centennial celebrations of ...

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 ...

The painting surpassed its $95 million estimate at Christie’s New York this week, making it the first Magritte work ever to sell for nine figures. Magritte is known for his Surrealist style ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

After a ten minute bidding-battle, a painting from Magritte's "L'empire des lumières" ("Empire of Light") series has sold for a record breaking $121 million. The painting is known for its play on ...

The previous record for Magritte was $79 million, established in 2022, with the latest painting valued at $95 million prior to the auction. A painting by Rene Magritte shattered an auction record ...

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.