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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 20, 2025 | Sotheby's | New York | Exquisite Corpus Evening Auction | 20 | $****** - ****** | La Représentation |
paintings
81 x 100 cm (31.88 x 39.38 in)
oil on canvas
signed Magritte (lower right); signed again, titled and dated 1962 (on the reverse)
Alexander Iolas, Paris and New York (acquired directly from the artist in February 1962)
Hanover Gallery, London (acquired from the above in 1965)
Private Collection (acquired from the above)
Byron Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by 1968 by the present owner
New York, Iolas Gallery, René Magritte, Paintings-Gouaches-Collages, 1960-1961-1962 , 1962, no. 16
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, The Vision of René Magritte, 1962, no. 91
Little Rock, Arkansas Art Center, Magritte , 1964, n.n.
(possibly) San Francisco, Gump"s Gallery, Magritte , 1964
(possibly) New York, Iolas Gallery, Magritte: le sens propre , 1965
Paris, Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Magritte: les images en soi , 1967
Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, Magritte, cent cinquante oeuvres: première vue mondiale de ses sculptures , 1968, no. 99
New York, Byron Gallery, René Magritte, 1968, no. 27, p. 61, illustrated
Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Magritte, 1998-99, no. 87, p. 166, illustrated in color
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: Two Private Eyes , 1999, vol. I, no. 153, p. 217, illustrated in color
Letter from Magritte to Iolas, 15 March 1961
Art and Artists , September 1966, p. 7, illustrated
René Passeron, René Magritte , Paris, 1970, p. 20, illustrated in color
Sarane Alexandrian, Dictionnaire de la peinture surréaliste, Paris, 1973, p. 36, illustrated in color
Michel Foucault, This is Not a Pipe, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1983, pp. vii, 8 and 44-45; pl. 22, n.p., illustrated
Harry Torczyner, Magritte: Ideas and Images, New York, 1977, p. 50, illustrated
Georges Roque, Ceci n"est pas un Magritte, Paris, 1983, no. 46, p. 43, illustrated; p. 196
Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn; David Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. III, London, 1993, no. 940, p. 355, illustrated; p. 356
René Magritte; Francine Perceval, ed., Lettres à André Bosmans: 1958-1967 , Brussels, 1990, pp. 178-79 and 189
Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Houston, The Menil Collection and Art Institute of Chicago, Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1936, 2013, p. 39, illustrated in color
René Magritte
(1898 - 1967)
La Représentation
signed Magritte (lower right); signed again, titled and dated 1962 (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
31 ⅞ by 39 ⅜ in. 81 by 100 cm.
Executed in 1962.
