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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 25, 2008 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale | 44 | $****** - ****** | La Perspective Amoureuse | |||
Nov 7, 2006 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art - Evening | 45 | $****** - ****** | Perspective amoureuse |
paintings
116 x 81 cm (45.67 x 31.89 in)
oil on canvas
signed Magritte (upper right); signed René Magritte, titled and dated 1935 on the reverse; inscribed Le démon de la perversité on the stretcher
Robert Giron, Brussels (acquired from the artist).
Private Collection, Brussels (by descent from the above in 1967.
Sale: Christie's, London, 29th June 1981, lot 52a). Marisa del Re Gallery, New York.
Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above in January 1983. Sold:
Sotheby's, New York, 7th November 2006, lot 45). Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, René Magritte: peintures, objets surréalistes, 1936, no. 19. Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Les Compagnons de l'art, 1938, no. 273. Venice, XXIV Biennale Internazionale d'Arte di Venezia, 1948, no. 43. The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, Facetten van hedendaagse schilderkunst: België, Luxembourg, Nederland, 1949, no. 58. São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna, Bienal, 1951, no. 9. Knokke, Casino Communal, Ve festival belge d'été: Expositions René Magritte - Paul Delvaux, 1952, no. 19. Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, René Magritte, 1954, no. 48, illustrated in the catalogue. Venice, XXVII Biennale Internazionale d'Arte di Venezia, 1954, no. 44. Liège, Musée des Beaux-Arts, L'Apport wallon au surréalisme, 1955, no. 54. Charleroi, Salle de la Bourse, XXXe salon [du] Cercle Royal Artistique et Littéraire de Charleroi, including a 'Rétrospective René Magritte,' 1956, no. 60. Brussels, Musée d'Ixelles, Magritte, 1959, no. 36. Liège, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Exposition Magritte, 1960, no. 21. London, Obelisk Gallery, Magritte: Paintings, Drawings, Gouaches, 1961, no. 21, illustrated in the catalogue. Vienna, Künstlerhaus, Surrealismus, phantastische Malerei der Gegenwart, 1962, no. 107. Knokke, Casino Communal, XVe festival belge d'été: L'uvre de René Magritte, 1962, no. 48. New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Waltham, Massachusetts, Brandeis University; Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago; Pasadena, Art Museum & Berkeley, University Art Museum, René Magritte, 1965-66, no. 27, illustrated in the catalogue. Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum, René Magritte, 6 surrealister, 1967, no. 40. Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Six peintures surréalistes, 1967, no. 55. Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, René Magritte: het mysterie van de werkelijkheid/Le mystère de la réalité, 1967, no. 39, illustrated in colour in the catalogue. Stockholm, Moderna Museet, René Magritte, 1967, no. 32, illustrated in colour in the catalogue. Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, René Magritte, 1987, no. 38, illustrated in colour in the catalogue. Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, René Magritte, 1987-88, no. 40, illustrated in colour in the catalogue. Madrid, Fundación Juan March, Magritte, 1989. Mitsukoshi, Le Musée d'Art; Hyogo, Le Musée d'Art Moderne & Fukuoka, Le Musée des Arts, Retrospective Magritte, 1994-95, no. 22, illustrated in colour in the catalogue. Vienna, BA-CA Kunstforum & Basel, Foundation Beyeler, René Magritte. Der Schlüssel der Träume, 2005, no. 46, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Paul Nougé, René Magritte ou la révélation objective, Brussels, 1936, illustrated p. 19. Paul Colinet, Pour illustrer Magritte, Brussels, 1936, no. 56. Les Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1st May 1936, illustrated p. 19. 'Album Surréaliste', in Mizue, Tokyo, 1937, illustrated pl. 80. Samleren, Copenhagen, March-April 1938, illustrated p. 69. Marcel Mariën, Magritte, Brussels, 1943, illustrated in colour pl. 10. De Roode vaan, Brussels, 27th December 1945, illustrated p. 4. René Magritte, Ecrits, Brussels, 1946, pp. 261-262. E. L. T. Mesens, 'René Magritte', in Peintres belges contemporains, Brussels, 1947, no. 81, illustrated p. 163. Les Arts en Wallonie 1918-1946, Charleroi, 1947, illustrated pl. 22. Les Arts plastiques, Brussels, May-June 1948, illustrated p. 199. Louis Scutenaire, Magritte, Antwerp, 1948 [published 1950], illustrated pl. 6. Max Kozloff, 'Epiphanies of artifice', in The Nation, New York, 10th January 1966, pp. 55-56. Suzi Gablik, Magritte, London, 1970, no. 80, illustrated p. 91. René Magritte, La Destination: lettres à Marcel Mariën (1937-1962), Brussels, 1977, discussed in letters dated 31st May & 2nd June 1943, nos. 46, 47 & 48, pp. 51-55. Harry Torczyner, Magritte: Ideas and Images, New York, 1977, no. 233, illustrated in colour p. 127. Jacques Meuris, René Magritte, London, 1988, no. 139, illustrated p. 92. Sarah Whitfield, Magritte (exhibition catalogue), Hayward Gallery, London, 1992, illustrated opposite no. 61. David Sylvester (ed.), Sarah Whitfield & Michael Raeburn, René Magritte. Catalogue Raisonné: Oil Paintings and Objects 1931-1948, London, 1993, vol. II, no. 385, illustrated p. 209. Magritte (exhibition catalogue), Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, 1998, no. 19, illustrated p. 23. Robert Hughes, The Portable Magritte, New York, 2001, illustrated in colour p. 150. Gisèle Ollinger-Zinque, Magritte in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, 2005, illustrated p. 19
