Rare Magritte painting could break record at New York auction | Social | Trends

Apparently this fall, the auction house ChristieNew York managed to sell a rare photo from the famous series “The Empire of Lights” by surrealist artist René Magritte.

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The piece, from 1954, is one of 27 paintings in which the artist explored light, with a sunlit sky over a dark street scene, and could sell for US$95 million.

according to The Art Newspaper, in 2022, another of the works in the series almost tripled the Belgian artist’s record when it sold for US$79.7 million at Sotheby’s in London.

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It should be noted that this table of Magritte It belonged to the personal collection of the late Mica Ertegun, an interior designer who married Ahmet Ertegun, Atlantic Records co-founder and art collector.

According to international media, other works that will be included in the sale of the Ertegun collection will be pieces by Joan Miró, David Hockney and even a Polaroid photo of Mica Ertegun himself taken by the artist Andy Warhol.

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