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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 7, 2024 | Christie's | London | The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale | 101 | $****** - ****** | Le principe d"Archimède | |||
Nov 5, 2003 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art & Works of Paper | 129 | $****** - ****** | Le principe d"Archimède |
Works on Paper
15.2 x 17.8 cm (6 x 7 in)
gouache on paper
signed "Magritte" (lower left)
Pauline Davis, and thence by descent; sale, Christie"s, New York, 5 November 2003, lot 129.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Rome, Galleria dell"Obelisco, Magritte , January - February 1953, no. 20.
Letter from Magritte to Gasparo del Corso, 6 November 1952.
Letter from Magritte to Gasparo del Corso, 11 December 1952.
D. Sylvester, ed., S. Whitfield & M. Raeburn, René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné , vol. IV, Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Collés 1918-1967, London, 1994, no. 1339, p. 146 (illustrated).
RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
Le principe d"Archimède
signed "Magritte" (lower left)
gouache on paper
6 x 7 in. (15.1 x 17.8 cm.)
Executed in 1952
