René Magritte’s famous painting L’empire des Lumières (1954) fetched $121.2 million at Christie’s in New York on Tuesday night, setting a new auction record for the Belgian Surrealist painter. The ...

A classic Surrealist painting by René Magritte, which has never been sold before, has been revealed as one of the likely blockbusters at Sotheby’s Modern and contemporary auction in London on March 3.

Belgian surrealist René Magritte’s masterpiece L’empire des lumières, which was painted in 1961 for Anne-Marie Gillion Crowet and has been kept in her family since, will make its auction debut in ...

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. “Empire of Lights, ...