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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 28, 2019 | Christie's | London | The Art Of The Surreal Evening Sale | 117 | $****** - ****** | Les barricades mystérieuses |
Works on Paper
19.1 x 25.1 cm (7.5 x 9.88 in)
gouache on paper
signed 'Magritte' (lower left), signed, dated and inscribed 'Les Barricades Mystérieuses Magritte 1960' (on the reverse)
Anonymous sale, Kornfeld und Klipstein, Bern, 11-13 June 1975, lot 604.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti, René Magritte, June - October 1986, no. 26, p. 197 (illustrated; with incorrect medium).
Arezzo, Museo Civico d'Arte Moderna e Conemporanea, Da Picasso a Botero: capolavori dell'arte del novecento, March - June 2004, p. 213 (with incorrect medium); this exhibition later travelled to Forlì, Palazzo Albertini, June - August 2004.
Paris, Musée Maillol, Magritte tout en papier: collages, dessins, gouaches, March - June 2006, p. 201 (illustrated; with incorrect medium); this exhibition later travelled to Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Voici Magritte: gouaches, collages, tekeningen, studies, schilderijen, September - December 2006.
S. Whitfield, ed., René Magritte: Newly Discovered Works, Catalogue raisonné, vol. VI, Oil Paintings, Gouaches, Drawings, Brussels, 2012, no. 36, p. 57 (illustrated; illustrated again on the inside cover and title page).
signed 'Magritte' (lower left); signed, dated and inscribed 'Les Barricades Mystérieuses Magritte 1960' (on the reverse)
gouache on paper
7 1/2 x 9 7/8 in. (19 x 25 cm.)
Executed in 1960
