クリスティーズさんのインスタグラム動画 - (クリスティーズInstagram)「‘L’empire des lumières’ by René Magritte Christie’s is honored to announce ‘L’empire des lumières’ by René Magritte will be a leading highlight in Christie’s 20th Century Evening Sale taking place this November. Painted in 1949, this work is the first of 17 oil paintings that was completed by the artist in this iconic, all-important series. ‘L’empire des lumières’ is an immediately recognizable work from Magritte’s singular oeuvre. Translated to “The Dominion of Light,” and frequently referred to as ‘The Empire of Light,’ the work is a sublime example of the finest of the artist’s surrealist compositions. As Magritte explained, the power of works such as ‘L’empire des lumières’ lay in transforming the familiar, everyday world in unexpected ways. Executed with a precision and attention to detail that only reinforces the uncanniness of the scene, the ‘L’empire des lumières’ paintings offer an elegant summation of Magritte’s unique form of Surrealism, reveling in a game of unexpected contradictions, in which all is familiar and yet ultimately strange, and the ordinary is rendered extraordinary. 20th Century Evening Sale | New York