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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 23, 2021 | Christie's | London | The Art of the Surreal | 102 | $****** - ****** | La grande marée |
Works on Paper
41 x 59.4 cm (16.13 x 23.38 in)
gouache on paper
Pierre and Léontine Hoyez-Berger, Brussels.
Private collection, Belgium, a gift from the family of the above in 1949, sale, Christie's, London, 29 June 2000, lot 618.
Private collection, New York, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Anonymous sale, Christie’s, New York, 12 November 2015, lot 18C (sold for $1,445,000).
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Brussels, Galerie Dietrich, Magritte, November - December 1946, no. 10 (titled 'Le grand monde').
R. Magritte, Titres, Brussels, 1946.
Letter from Magritte to Alex Salkin, 2 January 1947.
Letter from Magritte to Pierre Andrieu, 20 December 1947.
Exh. cat., René Magritte, Hugo Gallery, New York, 1947, no. 37.
D. Sylvester (ed.), S. Whitfield &, M. Raeburn, René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. IV, Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Collés, 1918-1967, Antwerp, 1994, no. app. 139, p. 324 (illustrated in situ).
