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Surrealist sale: Magritte's celebrated 'Les grâces naturelles' set for historic auction

Les grâces naturelles, an extremely rare painting by surrealist master René Magritte is expected to fetch up to €10 million when it goes up for auction for the first time in March at Christie's.

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00:00This is an important subject, it's super rare, it's done better than he ever did it before,
00:28it's large, it's got extraordinary colours, you see it only with one light,
00:32but if you change the light, this one, almost like a psychedelic painting, changes colours.
00:37There's blues, the leaves go blue, purple, green, it's very sharply painted, it's very carefully painted, it's a Super Magritte.
00:57People understand Magritte and this all around the world because he's not related to any particular morality,
01:06he's not attached to any religion, he's not attached to any particular nation in a way,
01:10yes, he's totally Belgian, but he's accessible to all.
01:16There's nothing stopping people from liking, being challenged, laughing, thinking at an image of Magritte.
01:26Magritte
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