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Shéhérazade by René Magritte

René Magritte

Shéhérazade, 1950

Oil on canvas
40 x 30.2 cm (15.75 x 11.88 in)
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Last recorded sale at Sotheby's, New York (14 Nov 2022)
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Nov 14, 2022
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Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

40 x 30.2 cm (15.75 x 11.88 in)

Materials

oil on canvas

Signature

signed magritte (lower right); titled Scheherazade and dated 1950 (on the reverse); dedicated à Stéphy Langui amicalement René Magritte 1954 (on the stretcher)

Provenance

Stéphy and Emile Langui, Belgium (acquired as a gift from the artist in 1954 and until the 1990s)

Galerie Cazeau-Béraudière, Paris

Acquired from the above in the early 2000s by the present owner

Exhibited

Brussels, Galerie Dietrich et Lou Cosyn, Exposition Magritte, 1951, no. 21

Verviers, Cave des Temps Mêlés , Exposition: Magritte, 1953, no. 9

Liège, Galerie du Carré, René Magritte, 1953, no. 9

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, René Magritte, 1954, no. 83

Knokke, Casino Communal, XVe festival belge d'été: L'Oeuvre de René Magritte, 1962, no. 78

Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Tricentenaire de la ville de Charleroi: peintres et sculpteurs , 1966, no. 76

Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuingen and Stockholm, Moderna Museet, René Magritte: Het mysterie van de werkelijkheid, 1967, no. 56 (Rotterdam); no. 49 (Stockholm)

Paris, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Magritte, 2003, p. 166, illustrated in color

Vienna, Kunstforum and Basel, Fondation Beyeler, René Magritte: der Schlüssel der Träume, 2005, no. 60, p. 128, illustrated in color

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, René Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images , 2006-07, p. 120, illustrated in color

Milan, Palazzo Reale, Magritte: Il mistero della natura, 2008-09, p. 156, illustrated in color

Musée Magritte, Brussels (on loan 2009-14)

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, René Magritte: The Fifth Season , 2018, pl. 45, illustrated in color

Madrid, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museo Nacional, La Máquina Magritte, 2021-22, no. 58, p. 43, illustrated in color

Literature

Patrick Waldberg, René Magritte, Brussels, 1965, p. 100, illustrated in color

Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn; David Sylvester, ed., Rene Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné , vol. III, London, 1993, no. 729, p. 160, illustrated

Siegfried Gohr, Magritte: Attempting the Impossible , New York, 2009, p. 209, illustrated in color

Description

Property from a Gentleman

René Magritte

1898 - 1967

Shéhérazade

signed magritte (lower right); titled Scheherazade and dated 1950 (on the reverse); dedicated à Stéphy Langui amicalement René Magritte 1954 (on the stretcher)

oil on canvas

15 ¾ by 11 ⅞ in. 40 by 30 cm.

Executed in 1950.