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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 2, 2010 | Christie's | London | The Art of the Surreal | 118 | $****** - ****** | Les grains de beauté |
paintings
55.5 x 45.5 cm (21.85 x 17.91 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'Magritte' (lower right); titled "LES GRAINS DE BEAUTé" (on the reverse)
Galleria Schwarz, Milan, by 1969. Davlyn Gallery, New York, by whom acquired from the above between 1971 and 1974. Michelle Rosenfeld Fine Art, New Jersey, by 1990.
Hanover, Kestner Gesellschaft, René Magritte, May - June 1969, no. 75 (illustrated p. 155); this exhibition later travelled to Zurich, Kunsthaus. New York, Davlyn Gallery, Magritte, November 1974 - January 1975, no. 18. New York, The Elkon Gallery, Modern and Contemporary Masters, April - June 1990.
D. Sylvester (ed.), René Magritte, catalogue raisonné, oil paintings, objects and bronzes, 1949-1967, vol. III, London, 1993, no. 1025 (illustrated p. 419).
