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 painting by Rene Magritte shattered an auction record for the surrealist artist on Tuesday, selling for more than $121 million (R2.2 billion) at Christie’s in New York. The seminal 1954 ...