But Magritte insisted that his most famous work ... In the postwar years, the artist made ends meet by forging Picassos and banknotes. It wasn’t until 1954 that The Treachery of Images saw ...

said the recent surge in interest in surrealists has transformed the market for the artists who first championed it a century ago including Salvador Dalí and Magritte, whose previous, $79.4 ...