Luxembourg + Co., a tony gallery that’s been putting on museum-like shows in New York and London since 2011, has outdone ...

Magritte’s fascination with the tobacco pipe predates his experiments with word and image, and it persisted through all his artistic reinventions. In 1920, fresh out of art school, Magritte ...

Magritte did not intend the image as a self-portrait, although it does physically resemble the artist, a sober presence who wore a suit and slippers when he painted and eschewed bohemian adventure.

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 ...

Christie’s deputy chairman for Impressionist and modern art, said the “highly poetic, highly dreamy” painting is among the handful of most important Magritte works in private hands.

A day after Sotheby’s tested the strength of the trophy market with its $65.5 million Claude Monet, rival Christie’s did one better—by auctioning off a $121.2 million René Magritte.

A René Magritte painting depicting an eerily lit ... million estimate and smashing the auction record for the Surrealist ...