A René Magritte painting depicting an ... in a succession of 27 works all titled “L’empire des lumières” (“The Empire of Light”), the 1954 canvas is well known among 20th century ...

René Magritte’s 'Empire of Light' smashed auction records on Tuesday, selling for over $121 million at Christie’s in New York. The 1954 masterpiece, initially valued at $95 million ...

Signed in the plate and includes in the margin, the blind stamps of ADAGP, of the MAGRITTE Succession, as well as the initials of its sole representative, Monsieur Charly Herscovici, also President of ...

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. The ...

It’s natural to search for light in those moments. One of René Magritte’s “Empire of Light” paintings portrays a scene that, from a spiritual perspective, provides insight into hope and ...

But Magritte insisted that his most famous work ... So, if I had written on my picture, This is a pipe, I’d have been lying! In this light, The Treachery of Images becomes a powerful meta ...

After a nearly 10-minute bidding war on Tuesday, Empire of Light (L’Empire des lumières ... L’empire des lumieres by Rene Magritte (1956), auction estimate $6-8 million, on display at ...

7. The Empire of Light by René Magritte Another nod to Magritte appears in the second episode, where his surrealist masterpiece The Empire of Light is subtly referenced. The juxtaposition of day ...