“Empire of Lights,” the painter’s 1954 dichotomy of night and day, was estimated to sell for $95 million. Magritte, who lived from 1898 to 1967, is known for his dreamlike takes on everyday ...

Wednesday, Jan. 29 at 9:15 p.m. Art Night dedicates an evening to the master of Surrealism. Henri de Gerlache's documentary explores the art of René Magritte, amid visual paradoxes and hidden meanings ...

After a ten minute bidding-battle, a painting from Magritte's "L'empire des lumières ... depicting the paradoxical image of a house at night, lit only by a street lamp, under a blue daytime ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A Rene Magritte painting was the top selling artwork at auction in 2024, achieving a price of more than $121 ...

Narrator: This image came to Magritte in a hallucination. He woke up one night in a room where a bird was sleeping in a cage. But he imagined that he saw an egg in the cage. Anne Umland: Curator, Anne ...