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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 6, 2020 | Christie's | London | The Art Of The Surreal Evening Sale | 36 | $****** - ****** | Les fleurs de l'abîme |
paintings
54 x 73 cm (21.25 x 28.75 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'Magritte' (lower left); inscribed and numbered '"LES FLEURS DE L'ABIME" (I)' (on the reverse)
Galerie L’Epoque [Paul Gustave Van Hecke], Brussels, by 1929.
Galerie Le Centaure, Brussels, 1929.
(probably) Jean Bastien, by 1931.
Claude Spaak, Brussels, by whom acquired in the 1930s.
Obelisk Gallery, London.
Harry Torczyner, New York, by whom acquired from the above in 1961, until at least 1979.
Christian Fayt, Knokke.
Private collection, Brussels, by whom acquired from the above in the late 1980s, and thence by descent to the present owner.
(probably) Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Guiette, Magritte, Picard, December 1931 – January 1932, no. 30.
(probably) Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Exposition René Magritte, May – June 1933, no. 23.
Brussels, Galerie des Éditions La Boétie, Surréalisme, December 1945 – February 1946, no. 72.
London, Obelisk Gallery, Magritte: Paintings, Drawings, Gouaches, September – October 1961, no. 7, p. 10 (illustrated p. 11).
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, The Vision of René Magritte, September – October 1962, no. 5 (illustrated).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, René Magritte, December 1965 – February 1966, no. 9 (illustrated p. 25); this exhibition later travelled to Waltham, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, April - May 1966; Chicago, Art Institute, May – July 1966; Pasadena, The Art Museum, August – September 1966; and Berkeley, University Art Museum, University of California, October – November 1966.
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings by René Magritte, December 1977, no. 4a.
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Rétrospective Magritte, October – December 1978, no. 79 (illustrated).
New York, Arnold Herstand, René Magritte: Paintings, November – December 1986, n.n.
Ostend, Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst, René Magritte, June - August 1990, no. 21, pp. 122 & 270 (illustrated p. 123).
Berkeley, University Art Museum, University of California, Anxious Visions - Surrealist Art, October - December 1990, p. 287 (illustrated p. 85, pl. 104).
Verona, Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Palazzo Forti, Da Magritte a Magritte, July - October 1991, no. 33, p. 273 (illustrated p. 83; with incorrect dimensions).
Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Magritte, March - June 1998, no. 62, p. 92 (illustrated).
Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Exposició René Magritte, November 1998 - February 1999, no. 27, p. 177 (illustrated p. 104).
Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, René Magritte, August - November 1999, no. 20, p. 78 (illustrated p. 28); this exhibition later travelled to Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, December 1999 - March 2000; and San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art, May - September 2000, pp. 43 & 100 (illustrated p. 43, pl. 16).
Paris, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Magritte, February - June 2003, p. 75 (illustrated).
Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, El Mundo Invisible de René Magritte, March - July 2010 (illustrated p. 92).
G. Marlier, 'Du Trompe l'œil', in Le Centaure, no. 7, Brussels, 1 April 1929, p. 180 (illustrated).
S. Dalí, ‘Documental-París-1929’, in La Publicitat, Barcelona, 23 May 1929, p. 1.
P. Colin, La Peinture belge depuis 1830, Brussels, 1930, pl. 414, p. 428 (illustrated).
J. Reichardt, 'René Magritte', in Apollo Magazine, vol. LXXV, no. 440, October 1961, p. 115 (illustrated).
P. Waldberg, René Magritte, Brussels, 1965, p. 340 (illustrated p. 59).
H. Torczyner, Magritte, The True Art of Painting, London, 1979, pp. 74 & 143 (illustrated pl. 90, p. 74).
D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné, vol. I, Oil Paintings, 1916-1930, Antwerp, 1992, no. 239, pp. 286-287 (illustrated p. 286).
R.-M. Jongen, René Magritte ou la pensée imagée de l'invisible, réflexions et recherches, Brussels, 1994, p. 92.
Exh. cat., Magritte, Montreal, 1996, p. 69 (illustrated).
D. Sylvester, Magritte, Brussels, 2009, pp. 116, 284 & 421 (illustrated p. 116).
B. Soltzfus, 'Ekphrasis in Magritte and Verne, Voyages extraordinaires to the Center of Art', in The Comparatist, vol. 35, May 2011, pp. 69 & 83.
signed 'Magritte' (lower left), inscribed and numbered '"LES FLEURS DE L'ABIME" (I)' (on the reverse)
