A Surreal World

$2 million–$3.38 million

“With its clear, crisp hyperrealist execution and its compelling subject that plays upon the conceptual ideas of artifice, illusion, and representation, René Magritte’s oil on canvas Les signes du soir (1926) epitomizes one of the fundamental themes of the artist’s work: the notion of a picture within a picture,” says Olivier Camu, deputy chairman of impressionist and modern art at Christie’s. The rare early canvas, which was included in the artist’s breakthrough one-man show in 1927, headlines the house’s Art of the Surreal sale in London on February 27.

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René Magritte’s oil on canvas Les signes du soir

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