Magritte painted the work in 1957, but over the course of his career he produced 17 oil paintings and 10 gouaches that all share the name “L'empire des lumières”. The sale also makes Magritte ...

A painting by Rene Magritte shattered an auction record for the surrealist artist on Tuesday, selling for more than $121 million (R2.2 billion) at Christie’s in New York. The seminal 1954 ...