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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 12, 2016 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Evening Sale | 37C | $****** - ****** | Les profondeurs du plaisir |
paintings
80 x 100 cm (31.5 x 39.38 in)
oil on canvas
Jean Bourjou, Brussels (1954 and until circa 1970).
Private collection, Brussels; sale, Christie's, London, 25 March 1980, lot 50A.
Private collection, Bologna (acquired at the above sale).
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Brussels, Galerie Dietrich, Exposition Magritte, January-February 1948.<br>Brussels, La Sirène, Oeuvres récentes de René Magritte, October 1953, no. 23.<br>La Louvière, Maison des Loisirs, René Magritte exposé, March-April 1954, no. 10.<br>Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, René Magritte, May-June 1954, no. 72.<br>Charleroi, Salle de la Bourse, XXXe Salon du Cercle Royal Artistique et Littéraire de Charleroi, Rétrospective René Magritte, March 1956, no. 88.<br>Brussels, Musée d'Ixelles, Magritte, April-May 1959, no. 68.<br>Liège, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Exposition Magritte, October-November 1960, no. 40.<br>Charleroi, Trent ans de peinture belge, 1920-1950, 1961.<br>Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, Magritte: Cent-cinquante oeuvres; première vue mondiale de ses sculptures, January-February 1968, no. 84.<br>Ferrara, Gallerie Civiche d'Arte Moderna Palazzo dei Diamanti, René Magritte, June-October 1986, p. 183, no. 19 (illustrated in color).<br>
L. Piérard, "Magritte, le surréaliste" in Le Peuple, Brussels, 30 January 1948, p. 2.<br>Letter from Robert Giron to E.L.T. Messens, 25 March 1954.<br>R. Barilli, I Surrealismi, Bologna, 1983, p. 42 (illustrated in color; illustrated in color again on the cover).<br>D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné, Oil Paintings and Objects, 1931-1948, London, 1993, vol. II, , p. 390, no. 632 (illustrated).<br>
