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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 23, 2009 | Christie's | London | Impressionist/Modern Evening Sale | 39 | $****** - ****** | Profondeurs de la terre |
paintings
12 x 22 cm (4.72 x 8.66 in)
oil on four canvases
signed 'magritte' (upper left)
E.L.T. Mesens, Brussels. Marcel Mabille, Brussels, by whom acquired from the above in the 1950s.
Acquired from the above by the previous owner in the 1960s.
Acquired from the above by the present owners circa 1970.
Brussels, Salle Giso, E.L.T. Mesens & E. van Tonderen présentent seize tableaux de René Magritte, February 1931, no. 3. Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Guiette, Magritte, Picard, December 1931 - January 1932, no. 39. Charleroi, Salle de la Bourse, XXXe salon du Cercle Royal Artistique et Littéraire de Charleroi et Rétrospective René Magritte, March 1956, no. 43. Brussels, Musée d'Ixelles, Magritte, April - May 1959, no. 26. Liège, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Exposition Magritte, October - November 1960, no. 10. Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, René Magritte, June - November 1987, no. 34 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, November 1987 - February 1988, no. 33 (illustrated). Yamaguchi, Musée Préfectural, René Magritte, April - May 1988; this exhibition later travelled to Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, May - July 1988. Santiago, Chile, Museum of Fine Arts, René Magritte, Paul Nougé, March 1999. Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, L'Art en Belgique, December 1990 - March 1991, no. 144. Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, René Magritte, March - June 1998, no. 94 (illustrated p. 115). Knokke, Casino Communal, Magritte, June - September 2001, no. 17 (illustrated p. 47). Paris, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Magritte, February - June 2003 (illustrated p. 104).
Letter from Magritte to Paul Nougé, February 1930, in Lettres surréalistes, no. 181. Letter from Magritte to E.L.T. Mesens, 10 June 1930, in Lettres mêlées, p. 29. La Lanterne/La Meuse, Brussels/Liège, 10-11 August 1968, p. 4 (illustrated). D. Sylvester (ed.), René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné, vol. I, Oil Paintings, 1916-1930, Antwerp, 1992, no. 328 (illustrated p. 351).
