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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 7, 2012 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale | 59 | $****** - ****** | Les verres fumés | |||
Nov 20, 1998 | Christie's | New York | The Collection of H.Torczyner, Esq. - 20th Century Art | 710 | $****** - ****** | Verres fumes |
paintings
60 x 50 cm (23.62 x 19.69 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'Magritte' (lower left); titled and dated '"LES VERRES FUMÉS" 1951' (on the reverse)
Harry Torczyner, New York (acquired from the artist, February 1958);
sale, Christie's, New York, 20 November 1998, lot 710.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owners.
Brussels, Galeries Dietrich and Lou Cosyn, Exposition Magritte, April 1951, no. 10. Rome, Galleria dell'Obelisco, Magritte, January-February 1953, no. 10. Cercle Royal Artistique et Littéraire de Charleroi, XXXieme Salon, March 1956, no. 101. Dallas, Museum for Contemporary Arts and Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, René Magritte in America, December 1960-March 1961, no. 38. New York, Albert Landry Galleries, René Magritte in New York Private Collections, October-November 1961, no. 14. Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, The Vision of René Magritte, September-October 1962, no. 32 (illustrated). Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, Magritte, June-October 1996, p. 191, no. 115 (illustrated in color). Nassau County Museum of Art, Surrealism, September 2000-January 2001, p. 91 (illustrated in color, p. 61). Nassau County Museum of Art, Long Island Collects, May-August 2002, p. 75 (illustrated in color, p. 43). Nassau County Museum of Art, Master Artworks from Private Collections, August-November 2005, p. 51 (illustrated in color, p. 33).
Letter from R. Magritte to A. Iolas, 13 January 1954. L. Scutenaire, "En parlant un peu de Magritte" in Cahiers d'art, Paris, 1955, p. 256. A. Bosmans, Le socle de la nuit, Verviers, 1959 (illustrated as the frontispiece). Letter from R. Magritte to A. Bosmans, 6 April 1959. La tendance populaire surréaliste, 14 May 1961 (illustrated). J.K., "René Magritte [Landry]" in Art News, December 1961, p. 14 (illustrated). H. Torczyner, "The Magic of Magritte" in The Art Gallery, January 1964, p. 9 (illustrated). A. Breton, Le Surréalisme et la peinture, Paris, 1965, p. 270 (illustrated). P. Waldberg, René Magritte, trans. A. Wainhouse, Brussels, 1965, p. 343, no. 119 (illustrated in color). R. Passeron, René Magritte, Paris, 1970, p. 59 (illustrated in color). H. Torczyner, Magritte: Ideas and Images, trans. R. Miller, New York, 1977, p. 207, no. 457 (illustrated in color). Letter from R. Magritte to A. Bosmans, 9 April 1959, in R. Magritte (F. Perceval, ed.), Lettres à André Bosmans 1958-1967, Paris, 1990, p. 45. H. Torczyner, L'ami Magritte: correspondance et souvenirs, Antwerp, 1992, p. 20 (illustrated in color); pp. 132 and 171 (illustrated, p. 117). D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné, London, 1993, vol. III, p. 179, no. 756 (illustrated, p. 178). R. Magritte, Magritte/Torczyner: Letters Between Friends, New York, 1994, p. 44 (illustrated).
