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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 | 9A | $****** - ****** | La cour d"amour |
paintings
80 x 100 cm (31.5 x 39.38 in)
oil on canvas
signed "Magritte" (lower right); dated and titled "LA COUR D"AMOUR" 1960" (on the reverse)
Alexander Iolas, New York (acquired from the artist, January 1961).
Daniel Filipacchi, Paris (acquired from the above, circa 1964-1965).
Byron Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the late owner, circa 1968 .
New York, Alexander Iolas Gallery, René Magritte: Paintings, Gouaches, Collages, 1960-1961-1962 , April-May 1962, no. 5.
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, The Vision of René Magritte , September-October 1962, no. 69.
Little Rock, Arkansas Art Center, Magritte , May-June 1964.
New York, Byron Gallery, René Magritte , November-December 1968, p. 58, no. 25 (illustrated, p. 59).
M.G. Mirabella, ed., "A World of Style" in Vogue , November 1979, p. 367 (illustrated in color in situ at the Ertegun Manhattan residence).
Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art, Surrealism , February-March 1983, no. 55 (illustrated in color).
Lausanne, Fondation de l"Hermitage, René Magritte , June-October 1987, pp. 146 and 203, no. 101 (illustrated in color, p. 146; illustrated again, p. 203).
Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, René Magritte , November 1987-February 1988, no. 113 (illustrated in color).
Vienna, BA-CA Kunstforum and Basel, Fondation Beyeler, René Magritte: Der Schlüssel der Träume , August-November 2005, pp. 162 and 201, no. 85 (illustrated in color, p. 162).
P. Devlin, "Space Venture: The Ahmet Ertegun Town House in New York, "Why Imitate When Now is New"?" in Vogue , 15 August 1969, p. 131 (illustrated in color in situ at the Ertegun Manhattan residence).
H. Torczyner, Magritte: Ideas and Images , New York, 1977, p. 116, no. 192 (illustrated).
D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné , Oil Paintings, Objects and Bronzes, 1949-1967 , London, 1993, vol. III, p. 334, no. 920 (illustrated).
R.-M. Jongen, René Magritte ou la pensée imagée de l"invisible: Réflexions et recherches , Brussels, 1994, pp. 254 and 271, no. 79 (illustrated).
S. Gohr, Magritte: Attempting the Impossible , Paris, 2009, p. 308, no. 421 (illustrated in color).
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. 14).
RENE MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
La cour d"amour
signed "Magritte" (lower right); dated and titled "LA COUR D"AMOUR" 1960" (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
31 ½ x 39 3/8 in. (79.9 x 100 cm.)
Painted in 1960
