Fact 314: What was the highest price paid for a Magritte at Sotheby's?
Fact 314: What was the highest price paid for a Magritte at Sotheby's?
The highest price paid for a Magritte at Sothebys (the famous auction house) was Rene Magritte's L'Empire des Lumieres (The Empire of Light) painting, it sold for an impressive £59.4 million pounds.
René Magritte was born on the 21st November 1898 and died on the 15 August 1967.
René Magritte created about 372 painting.
The most famous and most recognisable is The Son of Man painted by René Magritte in 1964, which is actually a self portrait of Magritte with an apple infront of his head.
