Belgian artist's oil-on-canvas study of resentful Golden Eagle expected to fetch high price at New York auction

                                            

Entitled Le Voleur (The Thief), Belgian artist Rene Magritte (1898-1967)  painted this oil-on-canvas study of a Golden Eagle shortly before his death. When it goes under the hammer at a sale in New York on May 19, auction house Sotheby's expect bids upwards of 2.8-million US dollars.