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MYSTERIOUS: Magritte painting sets surreal auction record selling for nearly 15m - You Need To See This

A painting by Rene Magritte shattered an auction record for the surrealist artist, selling for more than $121 million at Christie's in New York. © Kena Betancur / AFP

New York (AFP) – A painting by Rene Magritte shattered an auction record for the surrealist artist on Tuesday, selling for more than $121 million (€114 million) at Christie's in New York.

The seminal 1954 painting had been valued at €90 million, and the previous record for a work by Magritte (1898-1967) was €75 million, set in 2022.

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