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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 1, 2011 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Evening Sale | 58 | $****** - ****** | Les vacances de Hegel |
paintings
60 x 50 cm (23.62 x 19.69 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'Magritte' (lower left); titled and dated '"LES VACANCES DE HEGEL" 1958' (on the reverse)
Iolas Gallery, New York (by 1959). William Copley, Los Angeles (acquired from the above). Paul Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles. Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1979.
New York, Alexandre Iolas Gallery, René Magritte, February-March 1959. Little Rock, Arkansas Art Center, Magritte, May-June 1964. Cologne, Galerie Gmurzynska, Ensor-Delvaux-Magritte, March-April 1969. Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art and Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art, Rétrospective René Magritte, May-September 1971, no. 52. Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Peintres de l'imaginaire: symbolists et surréalistes belges, February-April 1972, no. 144. Banque de Brussels, Magritte, May 1972, no. 21. The New York Cultural Center and Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Painters of the Mind's Eye: Belgian Symbolists and Surrealists, February-May 1974, no. 113. Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, Delvaux, Gnoli, Magritte, November-December 1974, no. 45. Centre d'Arts Plastiques Contemporains de Bordeaux, Magritte, May-July 1977. Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, L'Art en Belgique 1880-1950: hommage Luc et Paul Haesaerts, June-August 1978, no. 160. Paris, Musée national d'Art Moderne, Rétrospective Magritte, October-December 1979, no. 160. Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage and Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, René Magritte, June 1987-February 1988, no. 96. Paris, Musée national d'Art Moderne, Andre Breton, April-August 1991, p. 477 (illustrated in color).
R.M. Coates, "Should Painters Have Ideas" in The New Yorker, 14 March 1959, p. 154. H. Michaux, "En rêvant à partir de peintures énigmatiques" in Mercure de France, Paris, December 1964, p. 597. P. Waldberg, René Magritte, Brussels, 1965, p. 122 (illustrated). S. Gablik, Magritte, London, 1970, pp. 121-122. A. Robbe-Grillet, La belle captive, Brussels, 1975, p. 68 (illustrated). B. Noël, Magritte, Paris, 1976, p. 93. H. Torczyner, Magritte, Ideas and Images, New York, 1977, p. 71, no. 99 (illustrated). D. Sylvester, René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné, oil paintings, objects and bronzes, 1949-1967, New York, 1993, vol. III, p. 289, no. 874 (illustrated). J. Meuris, René Magritte, Cologne, 2004, p. 97 (illustrated in color). S. Gohr, Magritte, Attempting the Impossible, Paris, 2009, pp. 263-265 (illustrated in color, p. 262).
