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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 6, 2013 | Christie's | London | The Art Of The Surreal | 104 | $****** - ****** | Ceci n'est pas une pomme (This is not an apple) | |||
Feb 6, 2001 | Christie's | London | The Art of Surreal | 79 | $****** - ****** | Ceci n'est pas une pomme |
paintings
141.7 x 100.8 cm (55.79 x 39.69 in)
oil on unilite
signed 'Magritte' (lower left)
Acquired directly from the artist in 1964 by his sister in law Léontine Hoyez-Berger, Brussels. Pierre Hoyez, Brussels. Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, by whom acquired directly from the above.
Private collection, Germany, by whom acquired from the above;
sale, Christie's, London, 6 February 2001, lot 79. The Scheringa Museum of Realist Art, Spanbroek, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 41e salon du Cercle Royal Artistique et Littéraire de Charleroi, Hommage à René Magritte, February 1968, no. 136. Zurich, Kunsthaus, René Magritte, June - July 1969, no. 109. Paris, Galerie Isy Brachot, Magritte, February - April 1984, no. 20 (illustrated on the cover of the catalogue). New York, Arnold Herstand & Co., René Magritte: Paintings, November - December 1986. Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, René Magritte et la pensée, January - February 1993, no. 202. Montréal, Museum of Fine Arts, Magritte, June - October 1996, no. 31 (illustrated). Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, René Magritte. Die Kunst der Konversation, November - March 1997, no. 27 (illustrated). Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, René Magritte 1898-1967, March - June 1998, no. 220 (illustrated). Santiago, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes y el Centro de Extensión de la Universidad Católica, Magritte/Nougé, March - June 1999, no 25.
R. Passeron, René Magritte, Paris, 1970, p. 49 (illustrated). J. Meuris, Magritte, New York, 1990, p. 30 (illustrated). J. Meuris, René Magritte 1898-1967, Cologne, 1990, (illustrated p. 121). D. Sylvester, (ed.), S. Whitfield & M. Raeburn, René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. III, Oil Paintings, Objects and Bronzes 1949-1967, Antwerp, 1993, no. 989, p. 394 (illustrated). E. Ansenk (ed.), Schilders van een andere werkelijkheid: in de collectie van het Scheringa Museum voor Realisme, Zwolle, 2006, pp. 84-85 & 233 (illustrated). P. van der Lugt (ed.), Nieuw Realisme: 159 werken uit de collectie van het voormalige Scheringa Museum voor Realisme, Zwolle, 2010, p. 61 (illustrated). R. Hughes, Magritte en poche, London, 2009, p. 389 (illustrated).
