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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 4, 2015 | Christie's | London | The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale | 114 | $****** - ****** | Le thérapeute |
Works on Paper
36 x 27.7 cm (14.17 x 10.91 in)
gouache on paper
signed 'Magritte' (lower left); signed, dated and inscribed '"LE THÉRAPEUTE" Magritte 1962' (on the reverse)
Alexander Iolas, Geneva, by 1963.Margaret Krebs, Brussels.
Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 1965.
Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, René Magritte, November 1987 - February 1988, no. 114 (illustrated). Yamaguchi, Musée préfectural, René Magritte, May - July 1988, no. 132 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Tokyo, Musée National d'Art Moderne, May - July 1988.Verona, Galleria d'arte moderna, Palazzo Forti, Da Magritte a Magritte, July - October 1991.Knokke, Casino communal, Magritte, June - September 2001, no. 37, p. 126 (illustrated p. 62).Brussels, Musée Magritte, on loan since 2009.
Letter from René Magritte to Alexander Iolas, 26 September 1962.Letter from René Magritte to Bosmans, 1 November 1962.Statement of account from René Magritte to Alexander Iolas, 1 January 1963.Exh. cat., René Magritte, Musée Prefectural, Yamaguchi & Tokyo, 1988.D. Sylvester, René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné, vol. IV, Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolors and Papiers Collés 1918-1967, London, 1994, no. 1512, p. 245 (illustrated). D. Abadie, ed., exh. cat., Magritte, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2003, p. 48 (illustrated). R. Hughes, ed., Magritte en poche, Antwerp, 2009, p. 430 (illustrated p. 377).
