But Magritte insisted that his most famous work wasn’t about nonsense or nihilism: Ah, the famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it’s just a ...

A René Magritte painting depicting an eerily lit streetscape sold for more than $121 million at a Christie’s auction in New York on Tuesday –– surpassing its $95 million estimate and ...

Born in 1898, René Magritte enjoyed an illustrious five-decade career, painting until his death aged just 68 in the late 1960s. He is one of the world’s most famous Surrealists, instantly ...

Light shines from two windows in the upper left of the canvas, inviting us inside. René Magritte’s L’empire des lumières (The Empire of Light), executed in 1954, is a pristine example of the ...

René Magritte is best known for his Surrealist masterpieces like The Son of Man (1964), which bend reality and subvert expectations. However, the Belgian artist experimented with a variety of ...

NEW YORK — 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.