In all, Magritte made over 50 paintings, drawings, and etchings of pipes. And even if we narrow our investigation to pipes that are explicitly not pipes, there’s still more than a handful to ...

Magritte went on to create three similarly large canvases — including the one that sold Tuesday — that same year so as not to disappoint other collectors. When asked about the comparatively ...

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.