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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 4, 2015 | Christie's | London | The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale | 115 | $****** - ****** | Les muscles célestes |
paintings
54 x 73 cm (21.26 x 28.74 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'Magritte' (upper left); indistinctly titled 'Les muscles célestes' (on the stretcher)
Galerie L’Epoque (Paul-Gustave Van Hecke), Brussels.Galerie Le Centaure, Brussels, by whom acquired from the above in 1929.E.L.T. Mesens, Brussels, by whom acquired from the above in 1932.Paul Nougé, by whom acquired from the above.E. Beauvoisin, by whom acquired from the above in 1953.
Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 1965.
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Rétrospective Magritte, October - December 1978, no. 42 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, January - April 1979 (shown in Brussels only).Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, René Magritte, June - October 1987, no. 7, p. 172 (illustrated).Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, René Magritte, November 1987 - February 1988, no. 14 (illustrated). Yamaguchi, Musée préfectural, René Magritte, May - July 1988, no. 22 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Tokyo, Musée National d'Art Moderne, May - July 1988.London, Hayward Gallery, South Bank Centre, Magritte, May - August 1992, no. 25 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September - November 1992, Houston, The Menil Collection, December 1992 - February 1993, and Chicago, Art Institute, March - May 1993 (shown in London and New York only).Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Magritte, 1898-1967, March - June 1998, no. 46, p. 81 (illustrated).Knokke, Casino communal, Magritte, June - September 2001, no. 9, p. 123 (illustrated p. 39).Vienna, BA-CA Kunstforum, René Magritte, The Key to Dreams, April - July 2005, no. 17, (illustrated p. 69); this exhibition later travelled to Riehen/Basel, Fondation Beyeler, August - November 2005.Brussels, Musée Magritte, on loan since 2009.New York, Museum of Modern Art, Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938, September 2013 - January 2014, pp. 89-91 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Houston, The Menil Collection, February - June 2014; and Chicago, Art Institute, June - October 2014.
Letter from René Magritte to Paul Nougé, in Lettres surrealistes, late September - October 1927, no. 105.Le fait accompli, nos. 34-35, Brussels, April 1970 (illustrated).R. Magritte, La destination: Lettres à Marcel Mariën, 1937-1962, Brussels, 1977 (illustrated on the cover).R. Calvocoressi, Magritte, Oxford, 1979, p. 29 (illustrated pl. 17).J. Meuris, Magritte, Woodstock, NY, 1990, no. 28, p. 20 (illustrated).R. Calvocoressi, Magritte, Oxford, 1992, p. 65 (illustrated).D. Sylvester & S. Whitfield, René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné, vol. I, Oil Paintings, 1916-1930, Antwerp, 1992, no. 166, p. 235 (illustrated). D. Ottinger, ed., exh. cat., Magritte, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, 1996, p. 39 (illustrated).D. Sylvester, Magritte, Brussels, 2009, pp. 152-153 (illustrated p. 153). R. Hughes, ed., Magritte en poche, Antwerp, 2009, p. 427 (illustrated p. 57).J. Waseige, ed., Le Musée Magritte, Bruxelles, Antwerp, 2014, p. 99 (illustrated).