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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 12, 2019 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 33 | $****** - ****** | COSMOGONIE ÉLÉMENTAIRE |
paintings
79 x 99 cm (31.1 x 38.98 in)
Oil on canvas
Signed Magritte (lower left), titled and dated 1949 (on the reverse)
Alexander Iolas, New York (acquired from the artist in 1949)
Christophe de Menil, New York (acquired from the above by 1960 until at least 1985)
Muriel & Howard Weingrow, New York (acquired by 1993)
Acquired in 2000
New York, Hugo Gallery, Magritte, 1951, no. 2
Dallas, Museum for Contemporary Arts & Houston, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, René Magritte in America, 1960-61, no. 26, illustrated in the catalogue
Sarasota, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; Macon, Georgia, Mercer University; Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts & traveling, René Magritte; Yves Tanguy, 1961-62 (no exhibition catalogue)
Little Rock, Arkansas Art Center, Magritte, 1964, n.n.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Waltham, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University; Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago; Pasadena, Pasadena Museum of Art & Berkeley, University of California Museum, René Magritte, 1965-66, no. 48, illustrated in the catalogue
London, Tate Gallery, Magritte, 1969, no. 69, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Peintres de l’imaginaire: Symbolistes et Surrealistes belges, 1972, no. 135, illustrated in the catalogue
Houston, Institute for the Arts, Rice University, Secret Affinities: Words and Images by René Magritte, 1976-77, n.n., illustrated in the catalogue
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts & Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Rétrospective Magritte, 1978-79, no. 146, illustrated in the catalogue
Roslyn Harbor, Nassau County Museum of Art, Surrealism, 1995, n.n., illustrated in color in the catalogue
Rome, Complesso del Vittoriano, Magritte. La storia centrale, 2001, n.n., illustrated in color in the catalogue
Paris, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Magritte, 2003, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, 2006-07, illustrated in color in the catalogue
New York, Blain-Di Donna, René Magritte: Dangerous Liaisons, 2011, illustrated in color in the catalogue
René Gaffé, Peinture: à travers dada et la surréalisme, Brussels, 1952, illustrated n.p.
Suzi Gablik, Magritte, Greenwich, 1970, no. 28, illustrated n.p.
Nicolas Calas, “Pearls of Magritte” in Arts Magazine, vol. 46, New York, April 1972, illustrated p. 47
Suzi Gablik, Magritte, London, 1985, no. 22, illustrated pp. 30-31
David Sylvester, Sarah Whitfield & Michael Raeburn, eds., Rene Magritte. Catalogue raisonné. Oil Paintings, Objects and Bronzes 1949-1967, vol. III, London, 1993, no. 708, illustrated p. 144
Siegfried Gohr, Magritte: Attempting the Impossible, Paris, 2009, no. 288, illustrated in color p. 211
Signed Magritte (lower left); titled and dated 1949 (on the reverse)
Oil on canvas
31 1/8 by 39 in.
79 by 99 cm
Painted in 1949.
