The painting, “The Empire of Light,” sold Tuesday as part of Christie’s sale of the collection of interior designer Mica Ertegun, who died last year at age 97. The sale lifts Magritte into ...

A 1954 version of René Magritte's The Empire of Light sold for $121 million at Christie's in New York, much more than expected. One of 27 renderings of the scene by the French surrealist ...

On Tuesday night at Christie’s in Manhattan, a version of Magritte’s famously enigmatic subject, “The Empire of Light,” depicting a deserted nocturnal street below a bright daytime sky ...

Light shines from two windows in the upper left of the canvas, inviting us inside. René Magritte’s L’empire des lumières (The Empire of Light), executed in 1954, is a pristine example of the ...

The painting, “The Empire of Light,” sold Tuesday as part of Christie’s sale of the collection of interior designer Mica Ertegun, who died last year at age 97. The sale lifts Magritte into ...

The painting, “The Empire of Light,” sold Tuesday as part of Christie’s sale of the collection of interior designer Mica Ertegun, who died last year at age 97. The sale lifts Magritte into ...

The painting, "The Empire of Light,” sold Tuesday as part of Christie's sale of the collection of interior designer Mica Ertegun, who died last year at age 97. The sale lifts Magritte into the ...