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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 1, 2022 | Christie's | London | The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale | 103 | $****** - ****** | La méditation |
paintings
50.5 x 65.1 cm (19.88 x 25.63 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'Magritte' (lower left); inscribed '" LA MEDITATION "' (on the reverse)
Edward James, West Dean, West Sussex, by whom probably acquired from The London Gallery in 1937.
The Edward James Foundation, West Dean, West Sussex; sale, Christie's, New York, 13 November 1984, lot 148.
Private collection, New York, by whom acquired at the above sale.
The Hague, Huize Esher Surrey, René Magritte , November - December 1936, no. 10.
London, The London Gallery, Pictures by Young Belgian Artists, January - February 1937, no. 19.
Durham, Dunelt House, Durham Surrealist Festival, November - December 1968, no. 2, p. 14.
London, Tate Gallery, Magritte, February - March 1969, no. 54.
Manchester, City Art Gallery, Surrealist Pictures from the Edward James Collection, May - June 1969, no. 19 (dated '1937'); this Arts Council of Great Britain exhibition later travelled to Birmingham, City Art Museum and Gallery, June - July 1969; Norwich, Norwich Castle Museum, August - September 1969; Hull, Ferrens Art Gallery, September - October 1969; Bath, Holburne of Menstrie Museum, October - November 1969; Plymouth, City Museum of Art, November - December 1969.
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Magritte, October - November 1973, no. 32, p. 40 (illustrated p. 80; dated '1937' and with incorrect dimensions).
Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, The Edward James Collection: Dalí, Magritte and Other Surrealists, August - September 1976, no. 35, p. 9 (dated '1937'; with incorrect dimensions).
London, The Hayward Gallery, Magritte, May - August 1992, no. 73, n.p. (illustrated; with incorrect dimensions); this exhibition later travelled to New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, September - November 1992.
Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, René Magritte, March - June 1998, no. 113, p. 129 (illustrated).
L. Scutenaire, Magritte, Antwerp, 1948, pl. 7 (illustrated).
H. Torczyner, Magritte: Ideas and Images, New York, 1977, no. 345, n.p. (illustrated; dated '1937' and with incorrect dimensions).
J.J. Spector, 'Magritte's La lampe philosophique : A Study of Word and Image in Surrealism', in Dada/Surrealism , vol. 7, New York, 1 January 1977, pp. 122, 125 & 127 (dated '1937').
D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné, vol. II, Oil Paintings and Objects, 1931-1948 , London, 1993, no. 410, p. 225 (image inverted; illustrated correctly vol. V, p. 30).
Exh. cat., René Magritte, 1948: La période vache, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, 2008, p. 135 (illustrated fig. III.17, p. 129).
RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
La méditation
signed 'Magritte' (lower left); inscribed '" LA MEDITATION "' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
19 7⁄8 x 25 5⁄8 in. (50.5 x 65 cm.)
Painted in 1936