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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 23, 2021 | Christie's | London | The Art of the Surreal | 111 | $****** - ****** | La découverte du feu | |||
Apr 3, 1990 | Christie's | London | Impressionist & Modern Paintings & Sculpture | 375a | Estimates not disclosed | La Decouverte du Feu | |||
Jul 1, 1987 | Sotheby's | London | N/A | 276 | Estimates not disclosed | La decouverte du feu |
paintings
22.2 x 16.2 cm (8.75 x 6.38 in)
oil on panel
Claude Spaak, Brussels, by 1936.
M. De Moor, Antwerp, by 1968.
J. Komkommer, Antwerp, sale, Sotheby’s, London, 1 July 1987, lot 276.
Isy Brachot, Brussels, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Private collection, Belgium, by whom acquired from the above.
Isy Brachot, Brussels, by whom acquired from the above.
Anonymous sale, Christie’s, London, 3 April 1990, lot 375A.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, René Magritte: peintures, objets surréalistes, April - May 1936, no. 31.
Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, Magritte: cent cinquantes oeuvres, January - February 1968, no. 126.
Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, Magritte dans les collections privées, January - March 1988, p. 88 (illustrated p. 89).
London, The Hayward Gallery, Magritte, May - August 1992, no. 72 (illustrated), this exhibition later travelled to New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, September - November 1992, Houston, The Menil Collection, December 1992 - February 1993, and Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, March - May 1993.
Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Magritte 1898-1967, March - June 1998, no. 111, p. 128 (illustrated).
Bielefeld, Kunsthalle, 1937. Perfektion und Zerstörung, September 2007 - January 2008 (illustrated on the cover and p. 431).
P. Colinet, Pour illustrer Magritte, Brussels, 1936.
P. Nougé, ‘René Magritte ou la révélation objective’ in Les Beaux-Arts, 1 May 1936, p. 19 (illustrated).
H. Michaux, ‘En rêvant à partir de peintures énigmatiques’ in Mercure de France, Paris, December 1964, p. 597.
P. Colinet, 'Pour illustrer Magritte' reprinted in Le fait accompli, no. 56, Brussels, December 1971, n.p.
D. Sylvester &, S. Whitfield, René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, Oil Paintings and Objects, 1931-1948, Antwerp, 1993, no. 393, pp. 214-215 (illustrated p. 214).
Letter from Magritte to Harry Torczyner, 24 January 1959, in H. Torczyner, Magritte-Torczyner. Letters Between Friends, New York, 1994, pp. 35-37 (illustrated p. 36).
S. Gohr, Magritte: Attempting the Impossible, New York, 2009, fig. 7, p. 12 (illustrated).
R. Hughes, Magritte en poche. 400 oeuvres d'art par le maître du surréalisme, Antwerp, 2009, p. 424 (illustrated p. 163).
Exh. cat., René Magritte: The Pleasure Principle, Tate, Liverpool, 2011, p. 74 (illustrated p. 75).
D. Ottinger, Magritte. La trahison des images, exh. cat., Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris, 2016, pp. 124 &, 199 (illustrated p. 124).
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE NEW YORK COLLECTION
