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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 11, 2015 | Christie's | New York | Looking Forward to the Past | 28 | $****** - ****** | L’empire des lumières | |||
Jun 22, 2011 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 6 | $****** - ****** | L’empire des lumières |
Works on Paper
19 x 26 cm (7.48 x 10.24 in)
gouache on paper
signed 'magritte' (lower right); titled '"L’EMPIRE DES LUMIÈRES"'(on the reverse)
Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Paris (acquired from the artist, 1955). Mme Conrad Schlumberger, Paris (acquired from the above).
Private collection, Europe (by descent from the above);
sale, Sotheby's, London, 22 June 2011, lot 6.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Paris, Galerie « Cahiers d'art », Exposition de peintures & gouaches de René Magritte , December 1955-January 1956, no. 2 or 3
Letter from R. Magritte to A. Iolas, 16 December 1955. Letter from R. Magritte to A. Iolas, 19 December 1955. D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue raisonné, Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Collés, 1918-1967 , London, 1994, vol. IV, p. 173, no. 1388 (illustrated)
