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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 | 628 | $****** - ****** | L'autre son de cloche |
paintings
35.6 x 46.4 cm (14 x 18.25 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'Magritte' (lower right); titled and dated '"L'AUTRE SON DE CLOCHE" 1951' (on the reverse)
Iolas Gallery, New York (acquired from the artist, April 1952).
William and Noma Copley, Longpont (acquired from the above, 1957).
Gift from the above to the late owners as a wedding present, 1957.
New York, Iolas Gallery, René Magritte , March-April 1953.
Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts and Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, René Magritte in America, December 1960-February 1961, no. 35.
Little Rock, Arkansas Art Center, Magritte, May-June 1964.
Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sweet Dreams and Nightmares: Dada and Surrealism from the Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection , March-May 2000, no. 8 (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).
Letter from R. Magritte to A. Iolas, 25 April 1952.
Letter from A. Iolas to R. Magritte, 23 June 1952.
Letter from R. Magritte to A. Iolas, 9 July 1952.
Letter from R. Magritte to A. Iolas, 17 July 1952.
Letter from A. Iolas to R. Magritte, 15 October 1952.
H. Torczyner, Magritte: Ideas and Images , New York, 1977, p. 149, no. 286 (illustrated, p. 148).
M. Marien, Le radeau au radoub , Brussels, 1983, p. 55.
D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, Oil Paintings, Objects and Bronzes, 1949-1967 , New York, 1993, vol. III, p. 190, no. 771 (illustrated).
RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
L'autre son de cloche
signed 'Magritte' (lower right); titled and dated '"L'AUTRE SON DE CLOCHE" 1951' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
14 x 18 1⁄4 in. (35.6 x 46.3 cm.)
Painted in 1951
