Mysterious Magritte Painting Could Fetch $63M at Auction Skip to content René Magritte, “L’ami intime (The Intimate Friend)” (1958), oil on canvas, 28.5/8 x 25.1/2 inches (image courtesy the Gilbert and Lena Kaplan Collection and Christie’s London) In a centenary celebration of the artistic and literary movement spawned by André Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto (1924), Christie’s London will host its Art of the Surreal evening sale on March 7 with a leading highlight that hasn’t been shown since 1998...
Auction of the Week: A 1966 Painting Created by The Beatles Sells for $1.7 Million - Galerie Subscribe Art + Culture Interiors Style + Design Emerging Artists Discoveries Artist Guide More Creative Minds Life Imitates Art Real estate Events Video Galerie House of Art and Design Subscribe About Press Advertising Contact Us Follow Galerie Sign up to receive our newsletter Subscribe The Beatles, Images of a Woman, 1966...
That Time Manet Dueled One of His Critics Skip to content Henri Fantin-Latour depicted both Manet (standing third from right) and Duranty (seated first on left) in his 1864 paiting "Hommage à Delacroix." (image via Wikimedia Commons ) On the morning of February 23, 1870, painter Edouard Manet and art critic Edmond Duranty traveled to the Saint-Germain-en-Laye forest on the outskirts of Paris...