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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 5, 2026 | Christie's | London | Modern Visionaries - The Roger and Josette Vanthournout Collection - Evening Sale | 213 | $****** - ****** | La plaine de l"air (The plain of the air) |
paintings
73.3 x 100.3 cm (28.88 x 39.5 in)
oil on canvas
signed "Magritte" (lower left)
Camille Goemans, Brussels, by whom acquired directly from the artist, by 1947.
Albert Niels, Brussels, by whom acquired from the above, by 1956 and until at least 1965.
Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, by whom acquired from the above.
Roger and Josette Vanthournout, Belgium, by whom acquired from the above in 1968, and thence by descent.
Brussels, Galerie Dietrich, Exposition René Magritte , January 1941, no. 7 (titled ‘Le grand air").
Verviers, Société Royale des Beaux-Arts, René Magritte , January - February 1947, no. 4 (dated "1942").
Charleroi, Cercle royal artistique et littéraire , Salle de la Bourse, XXXe Salon, Rétrospective René Magritte , March 1956, no. 59 (dated "1935").
Brussels, Musée d"Ixelles, Magritte , April - May 1959, no. 45 (dated "1936").
Liège, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Exposition Magritte , October - November 1960, no. 23, p. 11 (dated "1936"; with inverted dimensions).
Knokke-le-Zoute, Casino Communal, XVe Festival belge d"été , L"oeuvre de René Magritte , July - August 1962, no. 69, p. 46 (dated "1943"; with inverted dimensions).
Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, Magritte, cent cinquante oeuvres, première vue mondiale de ses sculptures , January - February 1968, no. 56 (dated "1943").
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Rétrospective Magritte , October - December 1978, no. 125, p. 202 (illustrated; dated " circa 1941"); this exhibition later travelled to Paris, Musée National d"Art Moderne, Centre National d"Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, January - April 1979.
Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, Rétrospective Magritte dans les collections privées , January - March 1988, p. 92 (illustrated pp. 93 & 235).
London, The Hayward Gallery, Magritte , May - August 1992, no. 83, p. 86 (illustrated p. 87); this exhibition later travelled to New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, September - November 1992; Houston, The Menil Collection, December 1992 - February 1993; Chicago, The Art Institute, March - May 1993.
Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, René Magritte , March - June 1998, no. 126, p. 140 (illustrated).
Milan, Palazzo Reale, Magritte, Il mistero della natura , November 2008 - March 2009, p. 187 (illustrated).
Tokyo, The National Art Center, René Magritte , March - June 2015, no. 55, pp. 142 & 297 (illustrated p. 142); this exhibition later travelled to Kyoto, Municipal Museum of Art, July - October 2015.
Lugano, Museo d"arte della Svizzera italiana, Magritte, La Ligne de vie , September 2018 - January 2019, no. 55, p. 126 (illustrated p. 127); this exhibition later travelled to Helsinki, Amos Rex, February - May 2019.
Madrid, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, La máquina Magritte , September 2021 - January 2022, no. 84, p. 156 (illustrated).
G. Marlier, "René Magritte" in Le Soir , Brussels, 7 January 1941, p. 2.
P. Waldberg, René Magritte , Brussels, 1965, p. 342 (illustrated p. 103; dated "1943").
J. Stevo, ed., "L"art belge, Magritte" in Revue du mouvement artistique franco-belge, January 1968, p. 63 (illustrated).
J. Meuris, Magritte , Paris, 1990, no. 229, p. 154 (illustrated; dated " circa 1941").
J. Meuris, René Magritte, 1898-1967, Cologne, 1990, p. 55 (illustrated; dated "1941").
D. Sylvester, Magritte, Brussels, 2009, p. 431 (illustrated p. 324).
D. Sylvester & S. Whitfield, eds., René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné , vol. II, Oil Paintings and Objects, 1931-1948 , London, 1993, no. 475, p. 278 (illustrated).
RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
La plaine de l"air (The plain of the air)
signed "Magritte" (lower left)
oil on canvas
28 7/8 x 39 ½ in. (73.4 x 100.2 cm.)
Painted in 1940
