It's a price that would break the artist's auction record amid strong demand for surrealist art
,” which depicts a home and surrounding trees in the darkness of night while the sky appears lit by the sun, is billed by Sotheby’s as one of the “most desirable works of modern art in private hands,” in part because it’s the largest painting from one of Magritte’s most popular series of works to come to auction.
The painting is one of 17 in Magritte’s “Empire of Light” series – other paintings in the series hang in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and The Menil Collection in Houston, along with a handful of European institutions and in other private collections.for “Le Principe du plaisir,” a surrealist portrait that sold in 2018 .
While “L’empire des lumières” has only ever been in the Gillion Crowet collection, it has been exhibited at museums worldwide, most recently on loan to the Musée Magritte in Brussels for more than a decade.at Sotheby’s branches in Los Angeles, New York, Hong Kong and London before being auctioned off March 2 in a sale with other modern and contemporary pieces.
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