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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 20, 2018 | Christie's | London | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale | 12b | $****** - ****** | Les compagnons de la peur | |||
Feb 4, 2015 | Christie's | London | The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale | 117 | $****** - ****** | Les compagnons de la peur |
paintings
70.7 x 93 cm (27.83 x 36.61 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'Magritte' (upper right), signed, titled and dated '"LES COMPAGNONS DE LA PEUR" MAGRITTE 1942' (on the reverse)
Willy Van Den Bussche, Brussels, by whom probably acquired directly from the artist, by 1943.
Galerie Lou Cosyn, Brussels.
Obelisk Gallery, London.
Jack Stafford, London, by whom acquired from the above, in 1961.
Mme Jean Krebs, Brussels, by 1965.
Private collection, Brussels, by whom acquired from the above by 1967, and thence by descent; sale, Christie's, London, 4 February 2015, lot 117.
Private collection, Tokyo, by whom acquired at the above sale.
London, Obelisk Gallery, Masters of Surrealism: Ernst to Matta, March - April 1961.
London, Obelisk Gallery, Magritte: Paintings, Drawings, Gouaches, September - October 1961, no. 23, p. 23 (illustrated p. 22; with inverted dimensions).
New York, Museum of Modern Art, René Magritte, December 1965 - February 1966, no. 40, p. 79 (illustrated p. 60); this exhibition later travelled to Waltham, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, April - May 1966; Chicago, Art Institute, May - July 1966; Pasadena, Art Museum, August - September 1966; and Berkeley, University Art Museum, October - November 1966.
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, René Magritte: Het mysterie van de werkelijkheid, Le mystère de la réalité, August - September 1967, no. 46b, p. 126 (illustrated p. 127).
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Rétrospective Magritte, October - December 1978, no. 127, n.p. (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, January - April 1979.
Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, René Magritte, June - October 1987, no. 46, pp. 184-185 (illustrated p. 184; illustrated n.p.); this exhibition later travelled to Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, November 1987 - February 1988, no. 49, pp. 276 & n.p. (illustrated n.p.).
Yamaguchi, Musée Préfectural, René Magritte, April - May 1988, no. 52, pp. 86-87 (illustrated p. 86); this exhibition later travelled to Tokyo, Musée National d'Art Moderne, May - July 1988.
Ostend, Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst, René Magritte, June - August 1990, no. 35, pp. 150 & 273-274 (illustrated p. 151).
Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, René Magritte, 1898-1967, March - June 1998, no. 129, p. 142 (illustrated).
Knokke, Casino de Knokke, Magritte, June - September 2001, no. 24, p. 125 (illustrated p. 52).
Vienna, BA-CA Kunstforum, René Magritte: The Key to Dreams, April - July 2005, no. 52, p. 200 (illustrated p. 117); this exhibition later travelled to Basel, Fondation Beyeler, August - November 2005.
Brussels, Musée Magritte, on loan 2009-2014.
P. Nougé, René Magritte ou les images défendues, Brussels, 1943 (illustrated p. 40).
L. Scutenaire, Magritte, Brussels, 1947, no. 31, p. 97 (illustrated).
P. Waldberg, René Magritte, Brussels, 1965, p. 127 (illustrated p. 126).
H. Michaux, En rêvant à partir de peintures énigmatiques, St Clément-la-Rivière, 1972, p. 62.
R. Magritte, Écrits complets, Paris, 1979, p. 226.
J. Meuris, René Magritte, 1898-1967, Cologne, 1990, p. 116 (illustrated).
J. Meuris, Magritte, New York, 1990, no. 164, p. 108 (illustrated; titled 'The League of Frightened Men').
D. Sylvester, René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné, vol. II, Oil Paintings and Objects, 1931-1948, Antwerp, 1993, no. 499, p. 295 (illustrated).
M. Paquet, René Magritte, 1898-1967: Thought rendered visible, Cologne, 1994, pp. 37 & 95 (illustrated p. 39).
R. Hughes, ed., Magritte en poche, Antwerp, 2009, p. 424 (illustrated p. 213).
M. Paquet, René Magritte, 1898-1967, Cologne, 2012, p. 39 (illustrated).
J. Waseige, ed., Le Musée Magritte, Bruxelles, Antwerp, 2014, p. 107 (illustrated).
signed 'Magritte' (upper right); signed, titled and dated '"LES COMPAGNONS DE LA PEUR" MAGRITTE 1942' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
27 7/8 x 36 5/8 in. (70.7 x 93 cm.)
Painted in 1942
