Magritte’s fascination with the tobacco pipe ... the now-familiar Treachery of Images, sitting on an easel. Suspended in midair, there’s another pipe, but this one is enlarged and simplified ...
A day after Sotheby’s tested the strength of the trophy market with its $65.5 million Claude Monet, rival Christie’s did one better—by auctioning off a $121.2 million René Magritte.