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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 4, 2014 | Christie's | London | The Art of the Surreal | 127 | $****** - ****** | Image à la maison verte (Image with a green house) |
paintings
60 x 81 cm (23.62 x 31.89 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'Magritte' (lower right); dated '1944' and titled (on the reverse).
Pierre Andrieu, Paris, by whom acquired directly from the artist.Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, by whom acquired from the above before 1977.
Brussels, Galerie des Editions de la Boétie, Surréalisme, December - January 1945, no. 79.Verviers, Société Royale des Beaux-Arts, René Magritte, August - September 1982, no. 23.Paris, Grand Palais, Foire internationale d'art contemporain, Galerie Isy Brachot, Magritte, October 1977, no. 8.Paris, Galerie Isy Branchot, Magritte 1898-1967, January - March 1979, no. 10 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, March - May 1979.Tokyo, Galerie de Arts, Shibuya, René Magritte, August - September 1982, no, 25; this exhibition later travelled to Toyama, Musée d'Art de la Préfecture, October 1982, and Kumamoto, Musée d'Art de la Préfecture, October - December 1982.
Letter from Magritte to Mariën, July 1944, in R. Magritte, La Destination: lettres à Marcel Mariën, 1937-1962, Brussels, 1977, no. 116.Letter from Magritte to Mariën, 5 August 1944, in R. Magritte, La Destination: lettres à Marcel Mariën, 1937-1962, Brussels, 1977, no. 117.Postcard from Magritte to Mariën, 22 August 1944, in R. Magritte, La Destination: lettres à Marcel Mariën, 1937-1962, Brussels, 1977, no. 126.Letter from Magritte to Mariën, 22 August 1944, in R. Magritte, La Destination: lettres à Marcel Mariën, 1937-1962, Brussels, 1977, no. 127.Postcard from Magritte to Mariën, 5 September 1944, in R. Magritte, La Destination: lettres à Marcel Mariën, 1937-1962, Brussels, 1977, no. 131."Jazz 47", in America: revue France-Amérique-latinité, no. 5, Paris, 1947 (illustrated p. 65).Letter from Magritte to Andrieu, 7 July 1947.Rhétorique, no. 3, Tilleur-lez-Liège, September 1961 (illustrated pl. 2).H. Michaux, En rêvant à partir des peintures énigmatiques, Montpellier, 1972, pp. 37-38.D. Sylvester & S. Whitfield, René Magritte. Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, Oil Paintings and Objetcs,1931-1948, London, 1993, no. 569, p. 345 (illustrated). R. Hughes, The portable Magritte, New York, 2002, p. 430 (illustrated p. 229).D. Sylvester & M. Draguet, Magritte, Brussels, 2009, p. 328 & 424.
