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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 7, 2020 | Christie's | New York | 20th Century Evening Sale | 2 | $****** - ****** | La découverte du feu | |||
Aug 8, 2009 | Kohn | Paris | Tableaux et Sculptures Modernes et Contemporains | 558 | $****** - ****** | La découverte du feu |
Works on Paper
25.1 x 19.4 cm (9.88 x 7.63 in)
gouache and watercolor on paper
Barnet and Eleanor Cramer Hodes, Chicago (commissioned from the artist, July 1959, and until at least 1993).
Anon. sale, Maître Marc-Arthur Kohn, Cannes, 8 August 2009, lot 558.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Magritte, March-May 1993, no. 50.
Andros, Museum of Contemporary Art, Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, Approaching Surrealism, June-September 2012.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, René Magritte, The Fifth Season, May-October 2018, p. 150 (illustrated in color, p. 123, pl. 48).
Letter from B. Hodes to R. Magritte, 1 July 1959.
Letter from R. Magritte to B. Hodes, 3 July 1959 (erroneously dated 3 June 1959).
D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Collés, 1918-1967, London, 1994, vol. IV, p. 216, no. 1460 (illustrated).
