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René Magritte’s was the star of Sotheby’s Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction in London on 2nd March, exceeding its estimate of £45m. Painted by the Belgian surrealist in 1961,. ‘A masterpiece of 20th-century art, brings together the two most fundamental elements of daily life – those of day and night – onto one paradoxical canvas,’ says Helena Newman, Chairman of Sotheby’s Europe and Worldwide Head of Impressionist & Modern Art.

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