{"id":56091,"date":"2025-03-07T15:43:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T20:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/?p=56091"},"modified":"2025-03-07T15:43:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T20:43:51","slug":"christies-london-art-of-the-surreal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2025\/03\/christies-london-art-of-the-surreal-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Christie&#8217;s London Art Of The Surreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_56092\" style=\"width: 203px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025_CKS_23510_0108_000rene_magritte_la_reconnaissance_infinie060545-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56092\" class=\"wp-image-56092\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025_CKS_23510_0108_000rene_magritte_la_reconnaissance_infinie060545-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"A painting of a small figure on top of a large floating orb seen through a window.\" width=\"193\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025_CKS_23510_0108_000rene_magritte_la_reconnaissance_infinie060545-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025_CKS_23510_0108_000rene_magritte_la_reconnaissance_infinie060545-713x1024.jpg 713w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025_CKS_23510_0108_000rene_magritte_la_reconnaissance_infinie060545-768x1104.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025_CKS_23510_0108_000rene_magritte_la_reconnaissance_infinie060545-1069x1536.jpg 1069w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025_CKS_23510_0108_000rene_magritte_la_reconnaissance_infinie060545-1425x2048.jpg 1425w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025_CKS_23510_0108_000rene_magritte_la_reconnaissance_infinie060545-scaled.jpg 1782w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56092\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>La reconnaissance infinie<\/em> by Ren\u00e9 Magritte<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Every year, around the beginning of March, Christie\u2019s hosts an Art of the Surreal sale at its London location. For as long as I\u2019ve been covering these auctions, they have always been some of the greatest successes Christie\u2019s experiences for the year. And 2025 was no different. On Wednesday, March 5th, a total of twenty-five lots crossed the block and proved that the market for surrealist paintings is incredibly strong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">When you pay attention to how surrealist works of art perform on the secondary market, you notice the same few names that always bring in <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">insane<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> amounts of money. And, of course, at Christie\u2019s on Wednesday, it was time to show off another priceless work by Ren\u00e9 Magritte. The Belgian artist\u2019s 1933 painting <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">La reconnaissance infinie<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> last sold at auction at Christie\u2019s in 2004, where it hammered at \u00a3600K (or \u00a31.06 million \/ $1.37 million in 2026). Magritte created the work in 1933, shortly after a successful exhibition at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Many interpret the work as a commentary on our ability to reflect on our place in the world and the universe. This time, Christie\u2019s predicted the painting would sell for between \u00a36 million and \u00a39 million. Bids came in at a steady pace, stalling at around \u00a38 million. It came down to two phone bidders who gradually decreased the increments, going from \u00a38.2 million to \u00a38.5 million to \u00a38.6 million. The bidder on the phone with Maria Los, head of Christie\u2019s American client advisory, finally snagged it at \u00a38.7 million \/ $11.2 million (or \u00a310.3 million \/ $13.3 million w\/p).<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_56093\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GlTWjpmWsAAqgdM-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56093\" class=\"wp-image-56093\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GlTWjpmWsAAqgdM-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"A painting of several nude female figures in a ruined ancient city.\" width=\"265\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GlTWjpmWsAAqgdM-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GlTWjpmWsAAqgdM-1024x876.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GlTWjpmWsAAqgdM-768x657.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GlTWjpmWsAAqgdM-1536x1314.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GlTWjpmWsAAqgdM-2048x1752.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56093\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>La ville endormie<\/em> by Paul Delvaux<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Next up was a 1938 oil painting by Magritte\u2019s colleague Paul Delvaux. The painting, entitled <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">La ville endormie<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, shows several nude female figures and the artist\u2019s self-portrait among the ruins of a town at nighttime. The structures of the ruined city resemble those of classical antiquity. However, their placement and arrangement in the painting give the setting a quality closer to fantasy than history. The use of classical and neoclassical architecture is something that several surrealists used in their works, <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.repettogallery.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/DEC-11_De-Chirico_Piazza-dItalia_1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">most notably Giorgio de Chirico<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. When it crossed the block on Wednesday, it was the first time the painting had gone to auction in over thirty years. The Delvaux was expected by Christie\u2019s to bring in a good amount of money, but few anticipated it to become one of the sale\u2019s top lots. The most anyone expected the painting to sell for was \u00a31.8 million. It surpassed this estimate after fifty-six seconds of bidding. It then reached double the highest estimate after three-and-a-half minutes. After just over eight minutes, it finally hammered at \u00a35.1 million \/ $6.57 million (or \u00a36.18 million \/ $7.96 million w\/p), or 2.8 times the high estimate. <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">La ville endormie<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> is now the artist\u2019s third most valuable painting to sell at auction. And finally, another Magritte in third place. In the painting, <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">La lumi\u00e8re du p\u00f4le<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, Magritte pulled from his experience as a commercial artist to create several figures, two of them appearing like shattered mannequins while a third appears almost like a person in a fur coat missing their face. Magritte designed catalogues for fur companies in the mid-1920s, allowing him to emulate these textures here. The work also has an interesting provenance. Several European galleries owned it at one point or another, and it was previously in the collection of the actress Sophia Loren. Christie\u2019s expected it to make at least \u00a34.5 million. However, interest in the painting was not as great as some of the others in the sale. After only a few bids, Adrien Meyer brought the hammer down after thirty-five seconds at \u00a34 million \/ $5.15 million (or \u00a34.88 million \/ $6.3 million w\/p).<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_56094\" style=\"width: 191px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GlTc5wvWkAAW9k0-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56094\" class=\"wp-image-56094\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GlTc5wvWkAAW9k0-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"A painting of several nude female figures with pieces missing from them, almost like mannequins, against a desert background.\" width=\"181\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GlTc5wvWkAAW9k0-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GlTc5wvWkAAW9k0-765x1024.jpg 765w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GlTc5wvWkAAW9k0-768x1028.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GlTc5wvWkAAW9k0-1147x1536.jpg 1147w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GlTc5wvWkAAW9k0-1529x2048.jpg 1529w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GlTc5wvWkAAW9k0-scaled.jpg 1912w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 181px) 100vw, 181px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>La lumi\u00e8re du p\u00f4le<\/em> by Ren\u00e9 Magritte<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Delvaux\u2019s <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">La ville endormie<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> was not the only work by the artist that did spectacularly well on Wednesday. Three Delvaux paintings were available at Christie\u2019s that day, one of which, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/resources.heni.com\/0a6c9da3-4a0b-4b93-a046-6d5edbe2abf1.jpg?width=1024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Les belles de nuit<\/span><\/em><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, was the biggest surprise of the sale. Against a high estimate of \u00a31 million, the painting attracted much attention, with bidding going on for nearly 5 minutes. It eventually hammered at \u00a33.6 million \/ $4.6 million (or \u00a34.4 million \/ $5.66 million w\/p), or over three-and-a-half times the high estimate. Even compared to previous years, the Art of the Surreal sale at Christie\u2019s on Wednesday did exceptionally well. These sales typically have incredibly high sell-through rates and specialist accuracy rates. Last year&#8217;s sale did not do as well as is normal, and they still managed an 88% sell-through rate with a 40% accuracy rate for the specialists, bringing in \u00a349.5 million against a total low estimate of \u00a348 million. This year, however, the surrealist sale returned with a bang. Of the twenty-five lots available, only one went unsold, giving it a sell-through rate of 96%. Furthermore, twelve lots sold within their estimates, giving Christie\u2019s a 48% accuracy rate. An additional eight lots (32%) sold above their estimates. The sale ended up exceeding its total high estimate. With all twenty-five lots initially predicted to bring in a maximum of \u00a338.4 million, the sale ended with a total hammer of \u00a339.4 million \/ $50.8 million.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, around the beginning of March, Christie\u2019s hosts an Art of the Surreal sale at its London location. For as long as I\u2019ve been covering these auctions, they have always been some of the greatest successes Christie\u2019s experiences for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2025\/03\/christies-london-art-of-the-surreal-2\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":56092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[923,926,634,207,20,416,15,120,9,228],"class_list":["post-56091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rehs-galleries","category-rehs-contemporary","tag-20th-century-art","tag-20th-century-belgian-art","tag-20th-century-european-art","tag-auction-news","tag-auction-results","tag-christies","tag-comments-on-the-art-market","tag-modern-art","tag-rehs-galleries-news","tag-surrealism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Christie&#039;s London Art Of The Surreal - Rehs Galleries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On March 5th, a total of twenty-five lots crossed the block at Christie&#039;s annual Art of the Surreal sale in London.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2025\/03\/christies-london-art-of-the-surreal-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Christie&#039;s London Art Of The Surreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On March 5th, a total of twenty-five lots crossed the block at Christie&#039;s annual Art of the Surreal sale in London.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2025\/03\/christies-london-art-of-the-surreal-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rehs Galleries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RehsGalleriesInc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-03-07T20:43:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025_CKS_23510_0108_000rene_magritte_la_reconnaissance_infinie060545-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1782\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nathan Scheer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nathan Scheer\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2025\\\/03\\\/christies-london-art-of-the-surreal-2\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2025\\\/03\\\/christies-london-art-of-the-surreal-2\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Nathan Scheer\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1d33fd182b28afdad8fc3548ffe6bdc4\"},\"headline\":\"Christie&#8217;s London Art Of The Surreal\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-03-07T20:43:51+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2025\\\/03\\\/christies-london-art-of-the-surreal-2\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":875,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2025\\\/03\\\/christies-london-art-of-the-surreal-2\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/03\\\/2025_CKS_23510_0108_000rene_magritte_la_reconnaissance_infinie060545-scaled.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"20th Century Art\",\"20th Century Belgian Art\",\"20th Century European Art\",\"Auction News\",\"Auction Results\",\"christie's\",\"Comments on the Art Market\",\"Modern Art\",\"Rehs Galleries - Art World News\",\"Surrealism\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Rehs 19th &amp; 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