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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 II | 128 | $****** - ****** | Sans titre (L"oiseau mort) |
Works on Paper
63.8 x 48.9 cm (25.13 x 19.25 in)
watercolor, brush and India ink, crayon, pencil and paper and sheet music collage on paper
signed "Magritte" (lower right)
Galerie Le Centaure, Brussels (by 1927).
The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Ltd.), London (1953).
Galerie Isy Brachot, Paris (October 1983).
Private collection, Brussels (acquired from the above, circa 1992).
Galerie Hopkins Custot, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 26 April 2002.
Brussels, Galerie Le Centaure, Magritte , April-May 1927, one of nos. 50-61.
Venice, XXVII Biennale di Venezia, Le fantastique dans l"art belge, de Bosch à Magritte, June 1954.
Paris, Galerie Isy Brachot, Magritte , February-April 1984, no. 21 (illustrated in color; dated 1926).
Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, Magritte dans les collections privées , January-March 1988, p. 206 (illustrated in color, p. 207).
Paris, Musée national d"art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Art & pub: Art & publicité 1890-1990 , October 1990-February 1991, p. 384 (illustrated; dated 1926).
London, The Hayward Gallery; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Houston, The Menil Collection and The Art Institute of Chicago, Magritte , May 1992-May 1993, no. 133 (illustrated in color).
Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, XXIV Bienal de São Paulo , October-December 1998.
Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, Hommage à Magritte , March-May 1998.
Paris, Galerie nationale du jeu de paume , René Magritte , February-June 2003.
Vienna, BA-CA Kunstforum and Basel, Fondation Beyeler, René Magritte: Der Schlüssel der Träume , August-November 2005, pp. 48 and 198, no. 2 (illustrated in color, p. 48).
D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Collés , 1918- 1967 , London, 1994, vol. IV, p. 303, no. 1621 (illustrated).
J. Meuris, René Magritte , Cologne, 2004, p. 18 (illustrated in color; dated 1926).
RENE MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
Sans titre (L"oiseau mort)
signed "Magritte" (lower right)
watercolor, brush and India ink, crayon, pencil and paper and sheet music collage on paper
25 1/8 x 19 ¼ in. (63.8 x 48.8 cm.)
Executed circa 1926-1927
