Magritte Painting Sells for $121 Million, Setting Auction Record
A painting by the surrealist artist René Magritte was sold to an undisclosed buyer for $121.2 million at Christie’s in New York, setting a new record for the artist at auction and becoming the biggest ...
Magritte, Master of Surrealism, Joins the $100 Million Dollar Club
Move over, Picasso, van Gogh and Warhol. With an inscrutable painting, the Belgian painter breaks a nine-figure threshold at ...
René Magritte Painting Sells for a Record-Breaking $121.2 Million
A day after Sotheby’s tested the strength of the trophy market with its $65.5 million Claude Monet, rival Christie’s did one ...
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Magritte’s Surrealist Masterpiece Sets $121.2 Million Auction Record
Rene Magritte’s painting "L’empire des lumières" fetched $121.2 million at Christie’s New York, a new record for the Belgian ...
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Sotheby’s David Galperin On the Market for Maurizio Cattelan
The buyer of ‘Comedian’ will receive a certificate of authenticity, instructions, a roll of duct tape and one banana.
This duct-taped banana art piece is worth at least $1 million. Here's why
Walk into any supermarket and you can generally buy a banana for less than $1. But a banana duct-taped to a wall? That might ...
René Magritte’s ‘L’empire des lumières’ sells for record $121 million
A René Magritte painting depicting an eerily lit streetscape has smashed the auction record for the Surrealist artist’s work.