Magritte Sets Record Sales of $79.7M at Sotheby’s
René Magritte’s famous ““Empire of Light” canvases On Wednesday it sold for £59.4m, or about $79.7m, almost triple the high auction price of a work by the Belgian Surrealist artist. Certain to raise at least $60 million thanks to a guaranteed minimum price funded by Sotheby’s, the 1961 painting was called by three bidders, all …
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