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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 19, 2019 | Christie's | London | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale | 19 | $****** - ****** | Le parc du vautour |
paintings
64.5 x 149.9 cm (25.38 x 59 in)
oil on canvas
signed ‘Magritte’ (lower right)
Galerie Le Centaure, Brussels, by 1927, until 1932.
E.L.T Mesens, Brussels, by whom probably acquired from the above, in 1932.
Harold Diamond, New York, by whom acquired from the above, in 1959.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (no. 2331).
Private collection, Venice, by 1986.
Blain Southern, London.
Acquired from the above, on 26 June 2012.
Brussels, Galerie Le Centaure, Exposition Magritte, April - May 1927, no. 38, n.p..
Dallas, Museum for Contemporary Arts, René Magritte in America, December 1960 - January 1961, no. 4, n.p. (dated '1928'); this exhibition later travelled to Houston, Museum of Fine Art, February - March 1961.
New York, Albert Landry Galleries, René Magritte in New York Private Collections, October - November 1961, no. 3, n.p. (dated '1928').
L’Aquila, Castello Spagnolo, Alternative attuali 2: rassegna internazionale di pittura, scultura, grafica, Omaggio a Magritte, Opere 1920-1963, August - September 1965, n.p. (illustrated).
Ferrara, Gallerie Civiche d’Arte Moderna, Palazzo dei Diamanti, René Magritte, June - October 1986, no. 10, p. 145 (illustrated p. 167).
London, The Hayward Gallery, Magritte, May - August 1992, no. 13, n.p. (illustrated n.p.); this exhibition later travelled to New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, September - November 1992; and Houston, The Menil Collection, December 1992 - February 1993.
Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Joseph Cornell et les surréalistes à New York, October 2013 - February 2014, no. 127, p. 146 (illustrated p. 147).
D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné, vol. I, Oil Paintings 1916-1930, London, 1992, no. 97, p. 180 (illustrated).
P. Roberts-Jones, Signes ou traces: Arts des XIXe et XXe siècles, Brussels, 1997, p. 40.
T. Riley, 'Rethinking the Modern', in Imagining the Future of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1998, p. 125 (illustrated fig. 23, p. 127).
P. Allmer, 'Framing the Real: Frames and Processes of Framing in René Magritte's oeuvre', in Framing Borders in Literature and Other Media, Amsterdam & New York, 2006, p. 133.
D. Sylvester, Magritte, Brussels, 2009, pp. 143 & 437 (illustrated p. 121).
H. Finkelstein, The Screen in Surrealist Art and Thought, Oxon & New York, 2016, n.p. (under note 11).
M. Draguet, Magritte, Paris, 2014, n.p.
signed ‘Magritte’ (lower right)
oil on canvas
25 3/8 x 59 in. (64.5 x 149.8 cm.)
Painted in 1926
