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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 23, 2010 | Christie's | London | Impressionist/Modern Evening Sale | 56 | $****** - ****** | Les barricades mystérieuses | |||
Feb 3, 2003 | Christie's | London | The Art of Surreal - Evening Sale | 173 | $****** - ****** | Les barricades mystérieuses | |||
May 8, 1991 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Paintings & Sculpture Part I | 42 | $****** - ****** | Les barricades mystérieuses |
paintings
80.6 x 128 cm (31.73 x 50.39 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'Magritte' (lower right); signed again, dated and titled 'LES BARRICADES MYSTéRIEUSES magritte 1961' (on the reverse)
Alexander Iolas, New York, by whom acquired from the artist in February 1962. L. Arnold Weissberger, New York, by whom acquired from the above; his estate sale, Christie's, New York, 17 May 1983, lot 74.
Private collection, Pennsylvania, by whom acquired at the above sale;
sale, Christie's, New York, 8 May 1991, lot 42.
Private collection, New York, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Acquavella Galleries, New York.
Private collection, by whom acquired from the above in 1995;
sale, Christie's, London, 3 February 2003, lot 173.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
New York, Alexander Iolas Gallery, René Magritte: Paintings, Gouaches, Collages 1960, 1961, 1962, April - May 1962, no. 9. Minneapolis, Walker Art Centre, The Vision of René Magritte, September - October 1962, no. 88. London, Tate Gallery, Magritte, February - April 1969, no. 92. Hanover, Kestner Gesellschaft, René Magritte, May - July 1969, no. 68 (illustrated p. 75); this exhibition later travelled to Zurich, Kunsthaus, June - July 1969. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, on loan, in July 1991. New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, June - September 1999, no. 145 (illustrated p. 209).
Exh. cat., Magritte: an exhibition prepared by the Art Department of the University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas, Arkansas Art Centre, Little Rock, 1964 (illustrated). H. Torczyner, Magritte, Ideas and Images, New York, 1977, no. 180, p. 112 (illustrated p. 113). Letter from Magritte to André Bosmans, 16 July 1961, in R. Magritte, Lettres à André Bosmans 1958 - 1967, Paris, 1990, p. 178. Letter from Magritte to Harry Torczyner, 6 July 1961, in H. Torczyner, L'ami Magritte: correspondance et souvenirs, Antwerp, 1992, no. 199, p. 191. D. Sylvester (ed.), René Magritte, catalogue raisonné: Oil Paintings, Objects and Bronzes 1949 - 1967, vol. III, Antwerp, 1993, no. 932 (illustrated p. 347).
