Magritte painting could bring more than $95m at Christie's marquee New York sales this autumn

"But of all the works she lived with, Magritte's L'empire des lumières most nearly captures her aesthetic philosophy in its balance and restraint," Max Carter said. "An icon of Surrealism, the Ertegun Magritte is arguably the finest, most deftly rendered and hauntingly beautiful of the series."

L'empire des lumières (1954) is one of the 27 paintings in which Magritte explored light by painting a sunlit sky above a darkened street scene.

A rare painting from René Magritte's famous L'empire des lumières series is estimated to sell for more than $95m at Christie's New York this autumn.

During her life, Ertegun supported causes like the Graduate Scholarship Programme in the Humanities at Oxford University, Jazz at Lincoln Center and the World Monuments Fund.

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