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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 20, 2024 | Christie's | New York | MICA: THE COLLECTION OF MICA ERTEGUN Part I | 5A | $****** - ****** | La Mémoire | |||
Jun 27, 1994 | Ader-Picard-Tajan | Paris | 19/20th Century Oil Paintings, Watercolours & Sculpture | 66 | Estimates not disclosed | La memoire |
paintings
44.5 x 54.6 cm (17.5 x 21.5 in)
oil on canvas
signed "Magritte" (upper right); dated, titled and numbered "“LA MÉMOIRE" (II) 1945" (on the reverse)
L"amicale des arts plastiques, Brussels (sold by tombola, 12 January 1946).
Gérard Gérain, Brussels.
Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels (acquired from the above, 1968).
Private collection, Brussels (acquired from the above, circa 1980).
James Goodman Gallery, Inc., New York.
Galerie Brusberg, Berlin (acquired from the above, 1986).
Paint and Print Art Dealers, Basel (acquired from the above, 1989).
Anon. sale, Ader Tajan, Paris, 27 June 1994, lot 66.
Private collection, Switzerland.
Blondeau et Cie., Geneva.
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 28 April 2000.
Brussels, Galerie L"Ecrin d"art, Œuvres offertes par L"amicale des arts plastiques , January 1946.
Knokke, Galerie Isy Brachot, Magritte , March-April 1971, no. 2 (illustrated in color).
Ecaussines Lalaing, Château-fort, Hainaut, Terre de Surréalisme , July-September 1971, no. 17.
Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Le hainaut: Terre de Surréalisme , October 1971, no. 63.
Lessines, Hôtel de Ville, Hommage de la ville de Lessines à René Magritte , May 1973, no. 8 (illustrated in color).
Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, Delvaux, Gnoli, Magritte , November-December 1974, no. 32 (illustrated; detail illustrated in color on the cover).
Centre d"arts plastiques contemporains de Bordeaux, Magritte , May-July 1977.
Paris, Galerie Isy Brachot, Magritte , January-March 1979, no. 11 (illustrated in color).
Paris, Didier Imbert Fine Art, Paris: Capitale des arts , April-July 1989, p. 56, no. 23 (illustrated in color, p. 57).
Vienna, BA-CA Kunstforum and Basel, Fondation Beyeler, René Magritte: Der Schlüssel der Träume , August-November 2005, pp. 122 and 200, no. 56 (illustrated in color, p. 122).
Clarté , Brussels, 23 December 1945, p. 1 (illustrated).
A. Negri, René Magritte: Il buon senso e il senso delle cose , Milan, 1984, p. 50, no. 7 (illustrated in color).
D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, Oil Paintings and Objects, 1931-1948 , London, 1993, vol. II, p. 353, no. 581 (illustrated).
J. Meuris, René Magritte , Cologne, 2004, p. 157 (illustrated in color).
RENE MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
La Mémoire
signed "Magritte" (upper right); dated, titled and numbered "“LA MÉMOIRE" (II) 1945" (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
17 ½ x 21 ½ in. (45.1 x 54.3 cm.)
Painted in 1945
