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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 28, 2019 | Christie's | London | The Art Of The Surreal Evening Sale | 112 | $****** - ****** | La belle captive |
paintings
38.4 x 55.6 cm (15.13 x 21.88 in)
oil on canvas
signed ‘Magritte’ (upper right)
Gérard (Geert) van Bruaene, Brussels.
Joseph Capuano, London, by whom acquired in Brussels in the 1930s (probably from the above), until the early 1970s.
Marlborough Fine Art, London.
Private collection, by whom acquired from the above in 1972.
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Guiette, Magritte, Picard, December 1931 - January 1932, no. 54.
London, Obelisk Gallery, Magritte: Paintings, Drawings, Gouaches, September – October 1961, no. 18, p. 16 (dated '1934-1935'; with inverted dimensions).
Knokke, Casino Communal, L’oeuvre de René Magritte, July – August 1962, no. 46, p. 45 (dated '1935').
London, Tate Gallery, Magritte, February – April 1969, no. 34, p. 130.
Hanover, Kestner Gesellschaft, René Magritte, May – June 1969, no. 25 (illustrated p. 103); this exhibition later travelled to Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich, June – July 1969.
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Rétrospective Magritte, October – December 1978, no. 104, p. 57 (illustrated n.p.); this exhibition later travelled to Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, January – April 1979.
London, The Hayward Gallery, Magritte, May – August 1992, no. 58 (illustrated n.p.); this exhibition later travelled to New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, September – November 1992; Houston, The Menil Collection, December 1992 – February 1993; and Chicago, The Art Institute, March – May 1993.
Paris, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Magritte, February – June 2003, p. 105 (illustrated).
Nagoya, City Art Museum, Visual Deception, April – June 2009, no. 100 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Bunkamura, Museum of Art, June – August 2009; and Hyogo, Prefectural Museum of Art, August – November 2009.
Tokyo, National Art Center, René Magritte: The Search for the Absolute, March – June 2015, no. 38, p. 114 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Kyoto, Municipal Museum of Art, July – October 2015.
Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Magritte: The Treachery of Images, September 2016 – January 2017, pp. 120, 123 & 199 (illustrated p. 134); this exhibition later travelled to Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, February – June 2017.
M. Mariën, La chaise de sable, Brussels, 1940, p. 26.
D. Sylvester, ‘Magritte’, in New Statesman, London, 8 October 1961, p. 488.
U.M. Schneede, René Magritte: Life and Work, New York, 1982, no. 23, pp. 47, 49 & 136 (illustrated p. 49).
B. Stoltzfus, ‘La belle captive: Magritte and Robbe-Grillet’, in The Comparatist, vol. 11, 1987, p. 64.
H. Höge, ‘Ecological Perception and Aesthetics: Pictures are Affordance-free’, in K. Landwehr, ed., Ecological Perception Research, Visual Communication, and Aesthetics, Berlin & Heidelberg, 1990, ch. 10.3.
J. Meuris, Magritte, New York, 1990, no. 161, p. 106 (illustrated).
D. Sylvester, Magritte, London, 1992, pp. 26, 34, 72, 228, 266, 298, 328 (illustrated p. 27).
K. Larson, ‘Somewhere Man’, in New York, 21 September 1992, p. 71.
D. Sylvester, René Magritte: Catalogue raisonné, vol. II, Oil Paintings and Objects: 1931-1948, London, 1993, no. 342, pp. 11, 176-177, 184, 308, 399 (illustrated p. 176).
B. Stoltzfus, ‘La belle captive: Magritte, Robbe-Grillet et le Surréalisme’, in The French Review, Vol. 72, No. 4, 1999, p 709.
P. Roegiers, Magritte and Photography, New York, 2005, no. 139, p. 98 (illustrated p. 100).
D. Sylvester, Magritte, Brussels, 2009, pp. 30-31, 39, 88, 283, 336, 386, 421 (illustrated p. 31).
S. Gohr, Magritte: Attempting the Impossible, New York, 2009, no. 249, p. 174 (illustrated p. 175).
Exh. cat., René Magritte: The Fifth Season, San Francisco, 2018, p. 17 (illustrated fig. 4).
signed ‘Magritte’ (upper right)
oil on canvas
15 1/8 x 21 7/8 in. (38.5 x 55.5 cm.)
Painted in 1931
