Our cover this month, “Les Belles Reálités” (131/2 in. by 101/4 in) by René Magritte, sold for $1,450,106 at Sotheby’s Surrealist Art Evening Sale in London on Feb. 3, 2015. The Belgium-born Magritte was...
When I was a teenager enamored with clothes shopping, my mother would often take me to the Loehmann’s store in Brooklyn (near our home). She prided herself on paying the lowest amount for an item as compared to the suggested retail price. If...