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La voix du sang by René Magritte

La voix du sang, 1948

Oil on canvas
79.1 x 58.7 cm (31.13 x 23.13 in)
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Last recorded sale at Christie's, New York (10 Nov 2022)
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Nov 10, 2022
Christie'sNew YorkVisionary: The Paul G. Allen Collection Part I20
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La voix du sang
Nov 11, 1997
Christie'sNew YorkImpressionist & Modern Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture (Part I)167
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La voix du sang
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Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

79.1 x 58.7 cm (31.13 x 23.13 in)

Materials

oil on canvas

Signature

signed ‘Magritte' (lower right)

Provenance

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.

Exhibited

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).

Literature

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).

Description

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