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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 8, 2012 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 29 | $****** - ****** | Fortune Faite | |||
May 7, 2008 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 50 | $****** - ****** | Fortune Faite |
paintings
60 x 50 cm (23.62 x 19.69 in)
oil on canvas
signed Magritte (lower left)
Alexandre Iolas, Paris (acquired from the artist in June 1957)
Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne (acquired from the above by 1965)
Acquired by the father of the present owner in the 1960s
Maurice Rapin, tract 'Nature et mystère', Paris, 22nd January 1958, illustrated; Letter from Magritte to Rapin, 26th May 1957; René Magritte (exhibition catalogue), Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1965, illustrated p. 17; Harry Torczyner, Magritte, Ideas and Images, New York, 1977, no. 455, illustrated p. 206; David Sylvester (ed.), Sarah Whitfield & Michael Raeburn, René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné, London, 1993, vol. III, no. 854, illustrated p. 269
