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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 10, 2022 | Christie's | New York | Visionary: The Paul G. Allen Collection Part I | 20 | $****** - ****** | La voix du sang | |||
Nov 11, 1997 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture (Part I) | 167 | $****** - ****** | La voix du sang |
paintings
79.1 x 58.7 cm (31.13 x 23.13 in)
oil on canvas
signed ‘Magritte' (lower right)
Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York (acquired from the artist, 8 August 1949).
Adelaide de Menil, Houston (acquired from the above, 1 January 1955); sale, Christie's, New York, 11 November 1997, lot 167.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
New York, Hugo Gallery, René Magritte , May 1948, no. 21.
(possibly) Brussels, Galerie Lou Cosyn, Les tableaux parlants de René Magritte , February-March 1949.
The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, Facetten van hedendaagse schilderkunst: België, Luxembourg, Nederland , June-August 1949, no. 66 (illustrated).
New York, Hugo Gallery, Magritte , March-April 1951, no. 5 (illustrated on the cover).
Dallas, Museum for Contemporary Arts and Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, René Magritte in America , December 1960-February 1961, no. 24 (illustrated).
New York, Albert Landry Galleries, René Magritte in New York Private Collections , October-November 1961, no. 50.
Little Rock, Arkansas Art Center, Magritte , May-June 1964 (illustrated; detail illustrated on the cover).
Houston, Rice University, Institute for the Arts, Secret Affinities: Words and Images by René Magritte , October 1976-January 1977, p. 26.
Maine, Portland Art Museum; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; New Orleans Museum of Art and Seattle Art Museum, Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection , October 2015-May 2017, p. 134, no. 33 (illustrated in color, p. 315).
L. Scutenaire, Magritte , Antwerp, 1948, p. 13 (illustrated, pl. 20).
P. Demarne, Rhétorique , September 1961, no. 3 (illustrated).
D. Sylvester, Magritte , New York, 1969, p. 8.
C. Moser, "Magritte's Show is One Step Beyond Surrealism” in Houston Chronicle , 3 October 1976.
D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, Oil Paintings, Objects and Bronzes, 1931-1948, London, 1993, vol. II, p. 419, no. 668 (illustrated).
RENE MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
La voix du sang
signed ‘Magritte' (lower right)
oil on canvas
31 1/8 x 23 1/8 in. (79.1 x 58.6 cm.)
Painted in 1948
