Belgian artist’s 1954 painting Empire of Light was valued at $95m yet broke new record at Christie’s auction in New York
A painting by René Magritte shattered an auction record for the surrealist artist on Tuesday, selling for more than $121m at Christie’s in New York.
The seminal 1954 painting had been valued at $95m, and the previous record for a work by Magritte was $79m, set in 2022.