Dismissed or trivialised by some as unserious and silly, Surrealist art was in fact largely born out of the brutal trauma of living under fascism, as these five striking works reveal. It's a ...
A painting by the 'Master of Surrealism' Rene Magritte has smashed the auction record for any of his works by selling for an astonishing $121 million at a Christie's auction in New York on Tuesday.
It also said that the 1954 oil-on-canvas painting sold for $121,160,000 - "setting a new world record for the artist and for a Surrealist work of art at any auction". The piece of art - one of the ...