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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 28, 2018 | Christie's | London | The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale | 113 | $****** - ****** | La recherche de l'absolu | |||
May 2, 1996 | Sotheby's | New York | Property from the Collection of Helen W. Benjamin | 260 | $****** - ****** | La recherche de l'absolu |
Works on Paper
45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in)
gouache on paper
signed 'Magritte' (lower left), dated and inscribed '"La Recherche de l'Absolu" 1948' (on the reverse)
Alexander Iolas, New York.
William Copley, Los Angeles & New York.
Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles.
Alan Auslander Gallery, New York.
Robert M. & Helen W. Benjamin, New York, by whom acquired from the above in 1965; her sale, Sotheby's, New York, 2 May 1996, lot 260.
Gana Art Gallery, Seoul.
New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, The Helen W. and Robert M. Benjamin Collection: A Loan Exhibition, May - June 1967, no. 104, p. 95 (illustrated p. 19; titled 'Tree').
D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné, vol. IV, Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Collés, 1918-1967, London, 1994, no. 1284, p. 116 (illustrated).
signed 'Magritte' (lower left); dated and inscribed '"La Recherche de l'Absolu" 1948' (on the reverse)
gouache on paper
18 x 14 in. (45.7 x 35.5 cm.)
Executed in 1948
