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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 17, 2021 | Sotheby's | New York | Modern Evening Auction | 38 | $****** - ****** | Cinéma bleu | |||
Nov 5, 2013 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Evening Sale | 42 | $****** - ****** | Cinéma bleu |
paintings
65.7 x 54 cm (25.88 x 21.25 in)
oil on canvas
inscribed Magritte and dated 1925 (lower left); signed and titled Le Mannequin (on the stretcher)
Georgette Magritte (née Berger) (a gift from the artist)
Galerie Courtens, Brussels
Alex Storck, Brussels & New York (acquired from the above in September 1959)
Parke Bernet Galleries New York, 11 November 1959, lot 69 (consigned by the above)
Munroe Geller, New York City (acquired at the above sale)
Sotheby’s London, 1 July 1964, lot 134 (consigned by the above)
Barry Miller, London (acquired at the above sale)
Galleria Gissi, Turin (acquired by 1971)
Galleria d’Arte del Naviglio, Milan (acquired by 1965)
Arte Contermporane Natinie, Turin
Sotheby’s London, 3 April 1974, lot 109
Davlyn Gallery, New York (acquired by 1977)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exh. Cat., Charleroi, Salle de la Bourse, Irène Hamoir, “Notes biographiques,” XXXème salon du Cercle Royal Artistique et Littéraire de Charleroi , 1956
Patrick Walberg, René Magritte, Brussels, 1965, p. 46, illustrated
Harry Torczyner, Magritte: Ideas and Images, New York, 1977, p. 47, illustrated
Bernard Noel, Magritte , Paris, 1977, p. 11, illustrated in color
Silvano Levy, “René Magritte and Window Display,” Artscribe, No. 28, 31 March 1981, pp. 24-28
Jacques Meuris, Magritte, Paris, 1988, p. 15, p. 44, p. 45, illustrated in color
David Sylvester, Magritte: The Silence of the World, New York, 1992, p. 71, p. 73, p. 63 illustrated in color
David Sylvester & Sarah Whitfield, René Magritte Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, London, 1992, no. 68, p. 161, illustrated
Silvano Levy, “René Magritte: Representational Iconoclasm,” Surrealism: Surrealist Visuality, New York, 1997, pp. 18-21, p. 23, p. 27, p. 19, illustrated
Silvano Levy, “Menace: Surrealist Intereference of Space,” Surrealism and Architecture , London, 2005, pp. 64-66, p. 68, p. 70
Siegfried Gohr, Magritte: Attempting the Impossible , Paris, 2009, no. 29, p. 23, illustrated in color
Christoph Grunenberg, ed., Magritte A-Z , London, 2011, p. 74, illustrated in color
Property from a Private Collection, Switzerland
René Magritte
1898 - 1967
Cinéma bleu
inscribed Magritte and dated 1925 (lower left); signed and titled Le Mannequin (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
25⅞ by 21¼ in. 65.7 by 54 cm.
Executed in 1925.
