Art History Nothing Is What It Seems in Magritte’s Most Iconic Artwork. We dove into the visual riddle that is René Magritte's 'The Treachery of Images'—art history's most infamous pipe.

Viewers can also see paintings full of Magritte’s signature motifs—like apples, pipes and bowler hats—that would become deeply influential to contemporary art in the years that followed.

LONDON (AP) — A major work by surrealist painter René Magritte that hasn’t been shown in public for a quarter century could fetch 50 million pounds ($64 million) at auction next month.

Two other Magritte works were included in the sale: The paintings “La cour d’amour” and “La Mémoire,” which sold for $10.53 million and $3.68 million, respectively.

Magritte died in 1967, and Georgette outlived her spouse by nearly two decades. She left seven of Magritte’s paintings, including a separate portrait of herself, to RMFAB upon her death in 1986.

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.

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