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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 5, 2014 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist, Modern & Surrealist Art Evening Sale | 63 | $****** - ****** | Le Beau Monde |
paintings
100 x 81 cm (39.37 x 31.89 in)
oil on canvas
signed Magritte (upper left); inscribed and crossed out Le jardin d'Orphée and titled Le beau monde on the reverse
Herman & Renée Lachowsky, Belgium (acquired from the artist in 1962) Acquired from the above by the father of the present owner by 1974
Mexico, Museo de Arte Moderno, Ensor, Magritte, Delvaux: Tres maestros de la imaginación, 1974, no. 30, illustrated in colour in the catalogue Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts & Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Rétrospective Magritte, 1978-79, no. 169, illustrated in the catalogue Tokyo, Galerie des Arts de Tokyu, Shibuya; Toyama, Musée d'Art de la Préfecture & Kumamoto, Musée d'Art de la Préfecture, René Magritte, 1982, no. 44 Paris, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Hommage à Magritte, 1984-85, no. 32 Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage & Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, René Magritte, 1987-88, no. 112 (in Lausanne); no. 115 (in Munich), illustrated in colour in the catalogue
