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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 14, 2022 | Sotheby's | New York | Modern Evening Auction | 119 | $****** - ****** | Shéhérazade |
paintings
40 x 30.2 cm (15.75 x 11.88 in)
oil on canvas
signed magritte (lower right); titled Scheherazade and dated 1950 (on the reverse); dedicated à Stéphy Langui amicalement René Magritte 1954 (on the stretcher)
Stéphy and Emile Langui, Belgium (acquired as a gift from the artist in 1954 and until the 1990s)
Galerie Cazeau-Béraudière, Paris
Acquired from the above in the early 2000s by the present owner
Brussels, Galerie Dietrich et Lou Cosyn, Exposition Magritte, 1951, no. 21
Verviers, Cave des Temps Mêlés , Exposition: Magritte, 1953, no. 9
Liège, Galerie du Carré, René Magritte, 1953, no. 9
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, René Magritte, 1954, no. 83
Knokke, Casino Communal, XVe festival belge d'été: L'Oeuvre de René Magritte, 1962, no. 78
Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Tricentenaire de la ville de Charleroi: peintres et sculpteurs , 1966, no. 76
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuingen and Stockholm, Moderna Museet, René Magritte: Het mysterie van de werkelijkheid, 1967, no. 56 (Rotterdam); no. 49 (Stockholm)
Paris, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Magritte, 2003, p. 166, illustrated in color
Vienna, Kunstforum and Basel, Fondation Beyeler, René Magritte: der Schlüssel der Träume, 2005, no. 60, p. 128, illustrated in color
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, René Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images , 2006-07, p. 120, illustrated in color
Milan, Palazzo Reale, Magritte: Il mistero della natura, 2008-09, p. 156, illustrated in color
Musée Magritte, Brussels (on loan 2009-14)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, René Magritte: The Fifth Season , 2018, pl. 45, illustrated in color
Madrid, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museo Nacional, La Máquina Magritte, 2021-22, no. 58, p. 43, illustrated in color
Patrick Waldberg, René Magritte, Brussels, 1965, p. 100, illustrated in color
Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn; David Sylvester, ed., Rene Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné , vol. III, London, 1993, no. 729, p. 160, illustrated
Siegfried Gohr, Magritte: Attempting the Impossible , New York, 2009, p. 209, illustrated in color
Property from a Gentleman
René Magritte
1898 - 1967
Shéhérazade
signed magritte (lower right); titled Scheherazade and dated 1950 (on the reverse); dedicated à Stéphy Langui amicalement René Magritte 1954 (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
15 ¾ by 11 ⅞ in. 40 by 30 cm.
Executed in 1950.
