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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 28, 2018 | Sotheby's | London | Surrealist Art Evening Sale | 41 | $****** - ****** | LE JOCKEY PERDU |
Works on Paper
37 x 46 cm (14.57 x 18.11 in)
gouache on paper
signed Magritte (lower left), signed Magritte, titled and dated 1947 on the reverse
Alexander Iolas, Paris
William N. Copley, Beverly Hills (acquired from the above in April 1948)
Stanley N. Barbee, Beverly Hills (acquired from the above. Sold: Sotheby's, New York, 11th November 1959, lot 51)
William N. Copley, Beverly Hills
Thence by descent to the present owner
New York, Hugo Gallery, René Magritte, 1948, no. 25
Beverly Hills, Copley Galleries, Magritte, 1948, no. 12
New York, Paul Kasmin Gallery, Alexander The Great: The Iolas Gallery 1955-1987, 2014, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Letter from Magritte to Alexander Iolas, 26th January 1948
Letter from Magritte to Alexander Iolas, 23rd February 1948
Letter from Magritte to Alexander Iolas, 11th March 1948
Letter from Alexander Iolas to Magritte, 5th March 1950
David Sylvester (ed.), Sarah Whitfield & Michael Raeburn, René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné, London, 1994, vol. IV, no. 1253, illustrated p. 98 (as dating from 1948)
signed Magritte (lower left); signed Magritte, titled and dated 1947 on the reverse
gouache on paper
37 by 46cm.
14 1/2 by 18 1/8 in.
Executed in 1947-48.
