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.

Last year, a Surrealist drawing by René Magritte sold on eBay ... best known for his 1929 painting The Treachery of Images, which paradoxically depicts a pipe alongside the French words ...

Salvador Dali is one of the most well-known Surrealist painters. Other surrealist artists include Frida Kahlo, Rene Magritte, Dorothea Tanning and Max Ernst. Surrealists believed that human beings ...