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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 5, 2008 | Christie's | New York | The Modern Age: The Collection of Alice Lawrence | 58 | $****** - ****** | Exercices spirituels |
paintings
60.3 x 73 cm (23.74 x 28.74 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'Magritte' (lower left); signed again, dated and titled 'MAGRITTE 1936 "EXERCICES SPIRITUELS"' (on the reverse)
Stéphane Cordier, Brussels (acquired from the artist, by 1938).
Private collection, Brussels. Carl Laszlo, Basel (by 1966). Macklowe Gallery & Modernism, New York. Acquired from the above by the late owner, November 1988.
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, René Magritte: peintures, objets surréalist, April-May 1936, no. 15. Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Les Compagnons de l'art, June-August 1938, no. 274. Knokke, Casino Communal, XVe festival belge d'été: L'Oeuvre de René Magritte, July-August 1962, no. 47. Bern, Kunsthalle, Phantastische Kunst Surrealismus, October-December 1966, p. 6, no. 72 (illustrated). Hanover, Kestner Gesellschaft and Zurich, Kunsthaus, René Magritte, May-July 1969, no. 35 (illustrated, p. 111). Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Nudes--Nus--Nackte, June-August 1984, no. 41 (illustrated in color). Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, René Magritte, June-November 1987, p. 183, no. 43 (illustrated; illustrated again in color). Lausanne, Musée Cantonale des beaux-arts, La Femme et le Surrealisme, November 1987-February 1988, p. 271, no. 8 (illustrated in color).
D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné: Oil Paintings and Objects 1931-1948, New York, 1993, vol. II, p. 223, no. 407 (illustrated). R. Hughes, The Portable Magritte, p. 436 (illustrated in color, p. 160).
