Hits And Misses At Sotheby’s $17.2 Million Auction In Saudi Arabia
The first international auction held in Saudi Arabia featured luxury watches and jewels, international art, Arab artists, and ...
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René Magritte’s ‘L’empire des lumières’ sells for record $121 million
A René Magritte painting depicting an eerily lit ... Above the streetscape, a light blue sky dotted with puffy white clouds stretches to the top of the canvas. The painting has been praised ...
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A René Magritte painting breaks records, fetching over $121 million at New York auction
under a blue daytime sky. The sale took place at Christie's in New York, with the $121 million sum being the highest price paid for a piece of surrealist art at auction. Magritte painted the work ...
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The Man in the Bowler Hat: Why the Works of René Magritte Still Resonate
It’s a cheeky send-off from René Magritte, one of the 20th century’s best-known surrealists ... a large-scale work where 172 nearly identical bowler-hatted men fall from the sky like rain, produced ...