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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 12, 2019 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale | 37A | $****** - ****** | La goutte d'eau | |||
Nov 15, 1989 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Drawings & Watercolours | 67 | $****** - ****** | La goutte d'eau |
Works on Paper
34.9 x 26.7 cm (13.75 x 10.5 in)
gouache over pencil on paper
signed 'Magritte' (lower right); signed again and titled '"LA GOUTTE D'EAU" Magritte' (on the reverse)
International Galleries, Chicago.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Mayer, Chicago (acquired from the above, 11 October 1960); sale, Christie's, New York, 15 November 1989, lot 67.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, In the Mind's Eye: Dada and Surrealism, December 1984-January 1985, p. 169 (illustrated; dated 1948).
New York, Fashion Institute of Technology Galleries, Fashion and Surrealism, October 1987-January 1988.
New York, The Pace Gallery, Rene´ Magritte: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, May-June 1990, no. 8 (illustrated in color; dated 1948).
D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Collés 1918-1967, London, 1994, vol. IV, p. 212, no. 1452 (illustrated).
signed 'Magritte' (lower right); signed again and titled '"LA GOUTTE D'EAU" Magritte' (on the reverse)
gouache over pencil on paper
13 ¾ x 10 ½ in. (35 x 26.8 cm.)
Painted circa 1958
