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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 20, 2024 | Christie's | New York | MICA: THE COLLECTION OF MICA ERTEGUN Part I | 19A | Estimates not disclosed | L"empire des lumières |
paintings
146.1 x 114 cm (57.5 x 44.88 in)
oil on canvas
signed "Magritte" (lower right); signed again, dated and titled "L"Empire des Lumières" Magritte 1954" (on the reverse)
Willy Van Hove, Brussels (acquired from the artist, 1954, until at least 1964).
Byron Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 8 June 1968.
Mons, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Hainaut cinq , March 1964, no. 19 (with inverted dimensions).
New York, Byron Gallery, René Magritte , November-December 1968, p. 26, no. 16 (illustrated in color, p. 27).
Southampton, The Parrish Art Museum, René Magritte: Poetic Images , August-September 1979, no. 25.
Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art, Surrealism , February-March 1983, no. 51 (illustrated in color; detail illustrated in color on the cover).
Lausanne, Fondation de l"Hermitage and Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, René Magritte , June 1987-February 1988, p. 200, no. 89 (illustrated, p. 200; illustrated again in color, p. 134).
The Montréal Museum of Fine Art, Magritte , June-October 1996, pp. 50 and 167, no. 84 (illustrated, p. 50; illustrated again in color, p. 167).
Paris, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Magritte , February-June 2003, p. 185 (illustrated in color, p. 184).
Vienna, BA-CA Kunstforum and Basel, Fondation Beyeler, René Magritte: Der Schlüssel der Träume , August-November 2005, pp. 150-151 and 200, no. 77 (illustrated in color, p. 151).
New York, Blain Di Donna, René Magritte: Dangerous Liaisons , October-December 2011, pp. 32 and 73 (illustrated in color, p. 33; detail illustrated in color on the cover).
P. Devlin, "Space Venture: The Ahmet Ertegun Town House in New York, "Why Imitate When Now is New"?" in Vogue , 15 August 1969, p. 129 (illustrated in color in situ at the Ertegun Manhattan residence).
M.G. Mirabella, ed., "A World of Style" in Vogue , November 1979, p. 365 (illustrated in color in situ at the Ertegun Manhattan residence, p. 364).
S.M.L. Aronson, "Classical Cool: Mica and Ahmet Ertegun"s town house reflects a discerning couple"s original taste" in House & Garden , March 1987, pp. 100 and 218 (illustrated in color in situ at the Ertegun Manhattan residence, p. 101).
P.A. Caracciolo, "Ahmet y Mica Ertegun: La Fuerza y La Tersura" in Cases & Gente , vol. 7, no. 71, October 1992, p. 57 (illustrated in color in situ at the Ertegun Manhattan residence).
D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, Oil Paintings, Objects and Bronzes, 1949-1967 , London, 1993, vol. III, p. 233, no. 809 (illustrated).
G. Ollinger-Zinque, Magritte in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels , Brussels, 2005, p. 64 (illustrated in color).
S. Gohr, Magritte: Attempting the Impossible , Paris, 2009, p. 223, no. 300 (illustrated in color, p. 222).
C. Haskell, ed., René Magritte: The Fifth Season , exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2018, p. 44 (illustrated in color, fig. 2).
E. Taylor, “"I Hate Clutter": The Chic, Cultivated Interiors of Mica Ertegun, As Seen in Vogue" in Vogue, www.vogue.com, 6 December 2023 (accessed 9 October 2024; illustrated in color in situ at the Ertegun Manhattan residence, pl. 10).
RENE MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
L"empire des lumières
signed "Magritte" (lower right); signed again, dated and titled "L"Empire des Lumières" Magritte 1954" (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
57 ½ x 44 7/8 in. (146 x 114 cm.)
Painted in 1954
