René Magritte’s 'Empire of Light' smashed auction ... Part of a series on light and shadow, it is one of Magritte's most iconic works. The piece belonged to the late Mica Ertegun, a Romanian ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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.