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Legendary record executive Mo Ostin's $120m art collection goes to Sotheby's for May, including works by Magritte, Twombly, Mitchell, Basquiat, de Kooning, Gorky, Picasso & Cecily Brown.

Christie's offers £4m work on paper, Le Retour as the Magrittte market comes off a record year of sales.

LiveArt has an easy-to-save calendar and the need-to-know lots for all of the November New York sales.

Among René Magritte’s many famous images expressing the uncanniness of modern life, none is as recognizable as his composition titled L’empire des lumières, of which he made 17 different versions beginning in 1948.

Bonhams sale of the collection of Amalia de Schulthess totaled $15.2 million in New York today. The bulk of the value of the collection lay in two works, a Magritte from 1937 that had not been seen in public for seven decades and a piece of furniture-cum-sculpture by Alberto Giacometti.