LONDON — A significant work by surrealist painter René Magritte that hasn’t been revealed in public for a quarter century might bring 50 million pounds ($64 million) at auction next month.
Christie’s auction home revealed Saturday that it will deal “L’ami intime” (The Intimate Friend) at a March 7 sale in London marking a century of the surrealist motion in art.
The painting consistsof numerous of the Belgian artist’s signature concepts, consistingof a bowler-hatted male and fluffy white clouds on a blue sky. In this painting, finished in 1958, the guy is revealed from behind, dealingwith out over a uneven landscape. A baguette and a redwine glass hover in the foreground.
Olivier Camu, Christie’s deputy chairman for Impressionist and contemporary art, stated the “highly poetic, extremely dreamy” painting is amongst the handful of most essential Magritte works in personal hands. Last displayed openly in Brussels in 1998, it’s being auctioned for the veryfirst time consideringthat 1980, and has a pre-sale pricequote