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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 4, 2014 | Christie's | London | The Art of the Surreal | 118 | $****** - ****** | Le calligraphe (The calligrapher) | |||
Jun 25, 2002 | Christie's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art - Evening Sale | 42 | $****** - ****** | Le calligraphe (The calligrapher) |
paintings
30 x 40 cm (11.81 x 15.75 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'Magritte' (lower right); titled (on the reverse)
Edgard Goldmuntz, Antwerp.Anne Alphond, a gift from the above.
Private collection, Brussels, by whom acquired circa 1987.sale, Christie's, London, 25 June 2002, lot 42.
Letter from Magritte to Bosmans, 10 January 1959, in R. Magritte, Lettres à André Bosmans 1958-1967, Paris, 1990, pp. 24-25.D. Sylvester, René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné, vol. III, Oil Paintings, Objects and Bronzes 1949-1967, London, 1993, no. 891, p. 301 (illustrated).
