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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 14, 2022 | Christie's | New York | The Surrealist World of Rosalind Gersten Jacobs and Melvin Jacobs | 644 | $****** - ****** | Le coeur du monde |
paintings
18.4 x 13.7 cm (7.25 x 5.38 in)
gouache on card
signed 'Magritte' (upper left); titled 'Le Coeur du Monde' (on card affixed to the reverse of the frame)
Acquired from the artist by the late owners, circa 1960.
Houston, University of St. Thomas, Constant Companions : An Exhibition of Mythological Animals, Demons and Monsters, Phantasmal Creatures and Various Anatomical Assemblages , October 1964-February 1965, no. 283.
Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sweet Dreams and Nightmares: Dada and Surrealism from the Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection , March-May 2000, no. 7 (illustrated in color).
New York, Pace/MacGill Gallery, The Long Arm of Coincidence: Selections from the Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection , April-May 2009 (illustrated in color).
New York, Kent Gallery, Dorothea Tanning & Friends , September-November 2009, p. 66 (illustrated in color, p. 67).
D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Collés, 1918-1967 , New York, 1994, vol. IV, p. 167, no. 1377 (illustrated).
RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
Le coeur du monde
signed 'Magritte' (upper left); titled 'Le Coeur du Monde' (on card affixed to the reverse of the frame)
gouache on card
7 1⁄4 x 5 3⁄8 in. (18.2 x 13.4 cm.)
Painted circa 1955
