The 1959 painting 'The Castle of the Pyrenees' is being restored at the Israel Museum

Our pick of the highlights from the March auctions

A 1938 lecture given by the notoriously tight-lipped Surrealist can be heard as part of the exhibition “Magritte. La ligne de vie”

New York Historical acquires Bill Cunningham’s photography archive, as Italian illuminated manuscripts go to Getty and a Magritte painting to Hamburger Kunsthalle

The interior designer Mica Ertegun's Surrealist L'empire des lumières sold for a record $121.1m in New York last night, with a new high also set for Ed Ruscha

In a subdued market, the season’s most promising auctions are of estates

Monthly public tours will reveal one of the UK’s most prestigious collections of Surrealist art, featuring works by Salvador Dalí, René Magritte and Leonora Carrington

Plus, a colourful Magritte painting and a Simone Baltaxé tapestry

If it goes for the auction house's estimate, "L'empire des lumières" (1954), from the collection of late interior designer Mica Ertegun, would set an auction record for the Surrealist artist

André Breton’s rarely seen handwritten Surrealist manifesto will take centre stage at a Centre Pompidou exhibition, which includes masterpieces of the movement and gives prominence to overlooked artists

The Mo Ostin sale at Sotheby's will feature works by Magritte and Twombly

Surrealist work is estimated to make €2m at Sotheby's

The artist denied that his huge sculptures of everyday objects were Pop Art, insisting he was not trying to make a comment consumerism or capitalism with them

The work was commissioned by a New York lawyer to cover an ugly view from his office and now takes centre stage in a new show in Jerusalem

Back-to-back auctions, with works from Degas to Banksy, brought in a total of £221m

The monumental L’empire des lumières, painted in 1961 for the artist's muse Anne-Marie Gillion Crowet, has never been sold before but will now be auctioned at Sotheby's in London in March

The artist’s trademark motifs make his work easily recognisable and desirable—but there is more to this Surrealist than apples and bowler hats

Hockney made the headlines, but other artists made waves—or flopped—at November’s auctions

Monet carries Christie's evening sale while a Magritte shines at Sotheby's, marking an auction record for the Surrealist painter

The “philosophical painter” poses age-old questions about what the senses apprehend, what awareness and reflection contribute, and how we know

Exhibition at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art explores Belgium artist's lesser-known late period

Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions