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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 10, 2020 | Christie's | London | ONE: A Global Sale of the 20th Century | 36 | $****** - ****** | L'Arc de Triomphe | |||
Nov 11, 1992 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture - Part I | 73 | Estimates not disclosed | L'Arc de Triomphe |
paintings
130.5 x 161.9 cm (51.38 x 63.75 in)
oil on canvas
Harry Torczyner, New York (acquired from the artist, 9 April 1962).
Galerie Isy Brachot, Paris (acquired from the above, circa 1986); sale, Christie’s, New York, 11 November 1992, lot 73.
Private collection (acquired at the above sale).
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 2000.
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Charleroi, XXXVIème salon du Cercle Royal Artistique et Littéraire, March 1962, no. 78 (titled Les goûts et les couleurs).
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, The Vision of René Magritte, September-October 1962, no. 92 (illustrated in color).
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Beaverbrook Art Gallery and London, Tate Gallery, The Dunn International: An Exhibition of Contemporary Painting sponsored by The Sir James Dunn Foundation, September-December 1963, no. 52.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Art Institute of Chicago, Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage, March-September 1968, p. 237, no. 182.
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, René Magritte, December 1977, no. 24.
Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, Rétrospective: Magritte dans les collections privées, January-March 1988, p. 137 (illustrated in color, pp. 138-139).
New York, The Pace Gallery, René Magritte: Paintings/Drawings/Sculpture, May-June 1990, no. 14 (illustrated in color).
“The Vision of René Magritte” in Arts, September 1962, p. 15 (illustrated in color).
P. Waldberg, René Magritte, Brussels, 1965, p. 340 (illustrated, p. 55).
B. Noël, Magritte, New York, 1977, p. 91 (illustrated in color; dated 1960).
H. Torczyner, Magritte: Ideas and Images, New York, 1977, pp. 241 and 270 (illustrated in color, p. 241, pl. 501).
H. Torczyner, Magritte: The True Art of Painting, London, 1979, no. 25 (illustrated in color).
F. Perceval, ed., René Magritte: Lettres à André Bosmans 1958-1967, Brussels, 1990, p. 229, letter from 14 February 1962; p. 230, letter from 17 February 1962 (titled Les Goûts et les Couleurs) and p. 238, letter from 10 April 1962.
H. Torczyner, L’ami Magritte: Correspondance et souvenirs, Antwerp, 1992, p. 402.
D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Objects and Bronzes, 1949-1967, Houston, 1993, vol. III, pp. 357-358, no. 942 (illustrated, p. 357).
