A painting by René Magritte is expected to sell for at least US$95 million at a Christie’s auction in November in New York. Titled L’empire des lumières, 1954, meaning “The Empire of Light ...

René Magritte is best known for his Surrealist masterpieces like The Son of Man (1964), which bend reality and subvert ...

A painting by René Magritte is expected to sell for at least US$95 million at a Christie’s auction in November in New York. Titled L’empire des lumières, 1954, meaning “The Empire of Light ...

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 ...

It was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art in New York from Man Ray in 1936, a close friend and collaborator of Magritte’s who had owned the painting since 1933. The Lovers (1928) René ...

Magritte’s works, which capture everyday objects in decidedly unusual combinations, explore the boundary between reality and illusion. His penchant for bowler hats, a signature of his paintings ...

Few Magritte paintings reside in private collections in Australia. Media baron Kerry Stokes has one and is lending it to the show. Titled Variation on Sadness , 1959, it depicts a hen regarding an ...

The Lovers, René Magritte, 1928 Art Gallery of New South Wales “Everything we see hides another thing; we always want to see what is hidden by what we see,” Magritte once said .

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 ...

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 ...