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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 21, 2012 | Christie's | London | Impressionist/ Modern Day Sale | 313 | $****** - ****** | La femme du maçon |
paintings
35 x 41 cm (13.78 x 16.14 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'Magritte' (lower left); inscribed 'La femme du maçon' (on the reverse)
Alexander Iolas, Paris, by whom acquired from the artist.
Private collection, by whom acquired from the above in the mid-1960s. Galleria La Medusa, Rome.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1971.
Rotterdam, West-Flandre Hainaut, December 1958 - January 1959. Brussels, Musée d'Ixelles, Magritte, April - May 1959, no. 106. Paris, Galerie Rive Droite, René Magritte, February - March 1960, no. 8. Houston, University of St. Thomas, Constant Companions, October 1964 - February 1965, no. 282. Rome, Galleria La Medusa, Maestri Europei, 1971, no. 19 (illustrated). New York, Davlyn Gallery, Magritte, November 1974 - January 1975, no. 10. Cincinnati, Taft Museum, René Magritte, 1977. Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miro, Magritte, 1998-1999 (illustrated).
L. Scutenaire, 'L'ouevre peint de René Magritte', in Savoir et beauté, La Louvière, 1961, p. 2418. Le fait accompli, no. 34-35, Brussels, April 1970 (illustrated). J. Vovelle, Le Surréalisme en Belgique, Brussels, 1972, (illustrated p. 126). D. Slyvester (ed.), René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné, Oil Paintings, Objects and Bronzes 1949-1967, vol. III, London, 1993, no. 892 (illustrated p. 302). R. Hughes, The Portable Magritte, New York, 2002 (illustrated p. 345).
