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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 14, 2022 | Christie's | New York | The Surrealist World of Rosalind Gersten Jacobs and Melvin Jacobs | 640 | $****** - ****** | Eloge de la dialectique |
Works on Paper
35.6 x 45.4 cm (14 x 17.88 in)
gouache on paper
signed 'Magritte' (lower left); titled and dated '"L'Eloge de la Dialectique" 1948' (on the reverse)
Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Paris (acquired from the artist, November 1948).
William and Noma Copley, Longpont (acquired from the above).
Gift from the above to Rosalind Gersten as a birthday present, 1955.
Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts and Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, René Magritte in America, December 1960-February 1961, no. 77 (titled L'Age du Dialectique ).
New York, Albert Landry Galleries, René Magritte in New York Private Collections, October-November 1961, no. 31 (titled L'Age du Dialectique ).
Little Rock, Arkansas Art Center, Magritte, May-June 1964.
Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sweet Dreams and Nightmares: Dada and Surrealism from the Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection , March-May 2000, no. 9 (illustrated in color).
Fukui Fine Arts Museum; Okazakai City Museum; Saitama Modern Art Museum; Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art and Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Man Ray: I Am an Enigma , June 2004-March 2005.
New York, Pace/MacGill Gallery, The Long Arm of Coincidence: Selections from the Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection , April-May 2009, p. 3 (illustrated in color, pl. 9).
Letter from R. Magritte to A. Iolas, 8 January 1948.
Letter from R. Magritte to A. Iolas, 24 January 1948.
Letter from R. Magritte to A. Iolas, 8 November 1948.
H. Torczyner, Magritte: Ideas and Images , New York, 1977, p. 133, no. 246 (illustrated).
D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Collés, 1918-1967, New York, 1994, vol. IV, p. 116, no. 1285 (illustrated).
RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
Eloge de la dialectique
signed 'Magritte' (lower left); titled and dated '"L'Eloge de la Dialectique" 1948' (on the reverse)
gouache on paper
14 x 17 7⁄8 in. (35.6 x 44.5 cm.)
Painted in 1948
