London's Cool and Collected Impressionist & Modern Week

But who was that couple that bid up—and bought—three of the most sought after works of the week?

There was a lot of talk surrounding the London Impressionist, Modern and Surrealism sales about two unexpected factors. One was predominant importance of Magritte in the current market for works of Surrealism—we told you last week about the collector who has been living on a plane these last two weeks who called Magritte the new Warhol—and the other was…