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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 26, 2024 | Christie's | Hong Kong | 20th/21st Century Evening Sale | 7 | $****** - ****** | La préméditation | |||
Feb 6, 2007 | Christie's | London | The Art of the Surreal | 130 | $****** - ****** | Premeditation |
paintings
55.3 x 46.2 cm (21.77 x 18.19 in)
oil on canvas
signed ‘magritte" (lower right); inscribed and dated "La Préméditation" 1943" (on the reverse)
Private collection, by whom acquired directly from the artist in 1943
Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, by whom acquired from the above in 1989
Private collection, Europe, by whom acquired from the above, by 1993
Anonymous sale, Christie"s, London, 2 February 2004, lot 60
Private collection, by whom acquired at the above sale; sale, Christie"s, London, 6 February 2007, lot 130
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Basel, Galerie Isy Brachot, Magritte, June 1989, pp. 28 & 67 (illustrated pp. 29 & 67); this exhibition later travelled to Paris, Galerie Isy Brachot, September - December 1989.
Ostende, Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst, René Magritte, June - August 1990, no. 39, pp. 158 & 159 (illustrated p. 159).
Verona, Galleria d"Arte Moderna di Palazzo Forti, Da Magritte a Magritte, July - October 1991, no. 49, p. 99 (illustrated).
Liverpool, Tate Gallery, René Magritte: The Pleasure Principle, June - October 2011, p. 90 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Vienna, Albertina, November 2011 - February 2012, p. 113 (illustrated).
San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art, René Magritte, The Fifth Season, May - October 2018, pl.1, pp. 70 & 148 (illustrated as a frontispiece; illustrated again p. 70).
Paris, Musée de l"Orangerie, Magritte / Renoir. Le surrealisme en plein soleil, February - July 2021, no. 37, pp. 66 & 183 (illustrated on the cover; illustrated again p. 67).
D. Sylvester, ed. & S. Whitfield, René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, Oil Paintings and Objects 1931 - 1948, London, 1993, no. 544, p. 324 (illustrated).
J. Curiel, "Unlikely Pear: “René Magritte: The Fifth Season” at SFMOMA", in SF Weekly, San Francisco, 30 May 2018.
RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
La préméditation
signed ‘magritte" (lower right); inscribed and dated "La Préméditation" 1943" (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
55.3 x 46.2 cm. (21 3/4 x 18 1/4 in.)
Painted in 1943
