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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 28, 2018 | Christie's | London | The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale | 118 | $****** - ****** | Les signes du soir |
paintings
74.9 x 64.8 cm (29.5 x 25.5 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'Magritte' (lower left), signed and inscribed 'Magritte "Les signes du soir"' (on the stretcher)
Galerie l'Epoque, Brussels.
Edouard Léon Théodore Mesens, Brussels, by whom acquired from the above on 22 February 1929.
Claude Spaak, Brussels & Paris, a gift from the above, by 1933 until at least 1977.
Galerie Brusberg, Hannover.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1978.
Brussels, Galerie Le Centaure, Exposition Magritte, April - May 1927, no. 13, n.p.
Brussels, Galerie Georges Giroux, Exposition de quelques artistes wallons, March - April 1931, no. 84, n.p.
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Guiette, Magritte, Picard, December 1931 - January 1932, no. 26, n.p.
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, René Magritte, May - June 1933, no. 7, n.p.
New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Exhibition Surrealist, Rene Magritte, January 1936, no. 12, n.p..
Paris, Galerie Beaux-Arts, Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme, January - February 1938, no. 104.
Knokke, Casino Communal, Veme Festival Belge d'Été, Expositions René Magritte, Paul Delvaux, August 1952, no. 2, n.p.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, dertien belgische schilders, October - November 1952, no. 62, n.p. (titled 'de tekens van den avond').
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, René Magritte, May - June 1954, no. 2, p. 21 (illustrated).
Venice, XXVIIeme Biennale de Venise, Le fantastique dans l'art Belge, de Bosch à Magritte, June 1954, p. 62, n.p.
Bordeaux, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Bosch, Goya et le fantastique, May - July 1957, no. 313, p. 111.
Knokke, Casino Communal, XVeme Festival Belge d'Été, L'oeuvre de René Magritte, July - August 1962, no. 9, p. 43 (illustrated n.p.).
London, Tate Gallery, Magritte, February - April 1969, no. 1 (illustrated p. 46); this exhibition later travelled to Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, René Magritte, May - June 1969, no. 4, p. 71 (illustrated p. 84); and Zurich, Kunsthaus, June - July 1969.
Bourges, Maison de la Culture, magritte, delvaux, gnoli, le choix d'un amateur, June - October 1972, no. 1 (illustrated n.p.).
Paris, Galerie Arts/Contacts, La Collection Claude Spaak, October - November 1972, no. 1, n.p. (illustrated n.p.).
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Magritte: Retrospective Loan Exhibition, October - November 1973, no. 3, p. 34 (illustrated p. 53).
New York, The New York Cultural Centre, Painters of the Mind's Eye: Belgian Symbolists and Surrealists, January - March 1974, no. 91, p. 120 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, April - May 1974.
Bordeaux, Centre d'Arts Plastiques Contemporains de Bordeaux, Magritte, May - July 1977, p. 9.
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Rétrospective Magritte, October - December 1978, no. 20, n.p. (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, January - April 1979.
P.-G. Van Hecke, 'René Magritte, peintre de la pensée abstraite', in Sélection, March 1927, p. 453 (illustrated).
P. Waldberg, René Magritte, Brussels, 1965, p. 341 (illustrated p. 80).
P. Roberts-Jones, 'Les poèmes visibles de René Magritte', in Bulletin des Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, no. 1 & 2, Brussels, 1968, no. 19, p. 76 (illustrated).
J. Vovelle, Le Surréalisme en Belgique, Brussels, 1972 no. 189, p. 158 (illustrated).
H. Torczyner, Magritte: Ideas and Images, New York, 1977, no. 135, p. 267 (illustrated p. 93).
R. Calvocoressi, Magritte, Oxford, 1984, no. 5, n.p. & p. 29 (illustrated n.p.).
D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné, vol. I, Oil Paintings, 1916-1930, London, 1992, no. 100, p. 182 (illustrated).
S. Levy, Decoding Magritte, Bristol, 2015, p. 59 (illustrated p. 58).
signed 'Magritte' (lower left); signed and inscribed 'Magritte "Les signes du soir"' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
29 1/2 x 25 1/2 in. (75 x 64.7 cm.)
Painted in 1926
