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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 2, 2012 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 69 | $****** - ****** | La Vie Heureuse | |||
Nov 13, 1997 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art (Part II) | 388 | $****** - ****** | La vie heureuse |
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
Acquired at the above sale; Fanny de Margoulies Rosenak, New York (sold from the Estate:
Sotheby's, New York, November 13, 1997, lot 388); Niveau Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1972); Alex Maguy (Galerie de l'Elysée), Paris; Galerie Vockaert, Brussels (acquired from the above by 1971); Robert de Keyn, Brussels; Lou Cosyn, Brussels (acquired by 1964)
David Sylvester, Sarah Whitfield & Michael Raeburn, René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné, 1931-1948, vol. 2, London, 1993, no. 553, illustrated p. 331; Enrique Gómez-Correa, El Espectro de René Magritte, Santiago, 1948, illustrated p. 25; Wergifosse, "La Partie du Plaisir," Le Fait accompli, Brussels, October 1973, no. 99 (originally written in 1947); View: Surrealism in Belgium, New York, December 1946, illustrated p. 18; René Magritte, Marcel Mariën & Paul Nougé, Dix Tableaux de Magritte précédés de descriptions, Brussels, 1946, illustrated pl. 3; Paul Nougé ("Charles Baudelaire-Nougé"), "L'amoureuse fidèle," La terre n'est pas une vallée de larmes, Brussels, 1945, illustrated p. 2; Letter from Magritte to Mariën, circa 1944, unpublished; Letter from Magritte to Marcel Mariën, April 1944 (reproduced in René Magritte, La Destination: lettres à Marcel Mariën (1937-1962), Brussels, 1977, no. 83)
