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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 5, 2013 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Evening Sale | 35 | $****** - ****** | Le domaine enchanté (II) |
paintings
68.2 x 134.6 cm (26.85 x 52.99 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'magritte' (lower left); titled, dated and numbered '"LE DOMAINE ENCHANTÉ" 1953 II' (on the reverse) and numbered again and inscribed 'no 2 GRAND PANNEAU CENTRAL (en face du no 6)' (on the stretcher)
Gustave J. Nellens, Knokke-Le-Zoute (acquired from the artist). Jacques and Roger Nellens, Knokke-Le-Zoute (by descent from the above). Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels (1988). Fuji Television Gallery, Co., Tokyo. Nippon Autopolis Co., Tokyo (acquired from the above, 1990).
Private collection (1991). Galerie Cazeau-Béraudière, Paris. MK Fine Art, Inc., New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2006.
Paris, Galerie La Hune, Le domaine enchanté, January 1966. Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, René Magritte: Het mysterie van de werkelijkheid, August-September 1967, p. 160, no. 63 (illustrated, p. 161; dated 1951-1953). Stockholm, Moderna Museet, René Magritte, October-November 1967, p. 48, no. 57 (illustrated). Ferrara, Galleria civica d'arte moderna, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Cento anni de pittura belga: collezione Gustave J. Nellens Knokke Le Zoute, Belgio, February-April 1970, no. 99/2 (illustrated in color). Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art and Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art, Rétrospective René Magritte, May-September 1971, no. 40 (illustrated in color; dated 1951-1953). Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Le Hainaut, terre de surréalisme, October 1971, no. 58. Paris, Grand Palais, Peintres de l'imaginaire: Symbolistes et Surréalistes belges, February-April 1972, p. 174, no. 139 (illustrated; dated 1951-1953). Brussels, Banque de Bruxelles, René Magritte, May 1972. Knokke-Le-Zoute, Casino, Collection Nellens, June-September 1972, no. 72. St. Etienne, Musée d'art et d'industrie, Les peintres belges et les surréalistes dans la collection Gustave J. Nellens, October-November 1972, p. 16, no. 36 (illustrated in color, p. 53, fig. 29B; dated 1951-1953). London, Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., Magritte, October-November 1973, pp. 117-124, no. 60 (illustated in color). The New York Cultural Center and Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Painters of the Mind's Eye: Belgian Symbolists and Surrealists, February-May 1974, p. 130, no. 103 (illustrated; dated 1951-1953). New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Le domaine enchanté, November 1977-January 1978. Ithaca, Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, March-May 1978. Paris, Galerie Isy Brachot, René Magritte: Le domaine enchanté, June-December 1988, pp. 6, 22 and 31 (illustrated in color, pp. 7 and 22; verso illustrated, p. 28). New York, Gagosian Gallery, René Magritte: Le domaine enchanté, June-July 1994, no. II (illustated in color). New York, Edelman Arts, Inc. & Paul Kasmin Gallery, Surrealism: Then and Now, October-November 2006. Roslyn Harbor, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, Surrealism: Dreams on Canvas, May-August 2007, p. 24 (illustrated in color). Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, El mundo invisible de René Magritte, March-July 2010, pp. 122-123 (illustrated in color).
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