Posted on 02/22/2018 8:26:19 PM PST by sparklite2
“The image of a bright blue sky punctuated with white and grey clouds is one of the most iconic in Magritte’s œuvre, often used as part of a paradoxical landscape or superimposed onto various shapes,” Sotheby’s writes in the bottle’s description.
“A cloudy sky soon became one of the artist’s most iconic motifs,” the auction house added.
“Magritte used this image on two bottles; the other one, dating from 1950 and titled La Courbure de l’univers, is now in The Menil Collection, Houston.”
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$1,000,000!? Are they cirrus?
Heh. I see what you did there.
At least it's not a pipe.
Wow, I sold my parent’s house way too cheap.
I painted the whole main bathroom like that. Didn’t realize it was high art.
They look more like they’re cumulo-series.
You guys crack me up!
The value is in the name Magritte.
Lol, my mind was clouded until I saw what you did there.
Mightn't that lead to lightning in a bottle?
We had a wonderful housekeeper from Poland.
She would have spent a week, if it was necessary, to scrub the paint off that bottle.
Na zdrowie!
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