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...The top price was £59.4mn for René Magritte’s “L’empire des lumières” (1961) at Sotheby’s....
...Previous Cannes victors with Rosetta and L’Enfant, the Belgian brothers’ new film is better than either....
...Prices are consequential – for example, Brancusi’s elegant polished bronze “Mlle Pogany I” (1913) at L&M Arts carries a tag of more than $30m....
...Indeed, President Bush Sr used the “l” word as a slur on his Democratic opponents....
...Signature motifs are a change of scale, displacement of objects (like Dalí’s lobster on a telephone), the use of eyes and trompe l’oeil ....
...Thomas F....
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