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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 1, 2017 | Sotheby's | London | Surrealist Art Evening Sale | 54 | $****** - ****** | LA PREUVE MYSTÉRIEUSE |
paintings
52 x 64 cm (20.47 x 25.2 in)
oil on canvas
signed Magritte (upper left)
E.L.T. Mesens, Brussels (possibly acquired by 1932)
Paul-Gustave van Hecke, Brussels (a gift from the above in March 1962)
Harry Torczyner, New York
Private Collection, Zurich (acquired by 1966)
Sale: Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 14th May 1980, lot 239A
Shusaku Arakawa & Madeline Gins, New York (acquired by 1992; until at least 2000)
Galerie Hopkins Custot, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2006
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Magritte: Word vs Image, 1954, no. 18 (as dating from 1928-29)
Knokke, Casino Communal, XVe Festival Belge d'Eté: L'Œuvre de René Magritte, 1962, no. 21, illustrated in the catalogue (as dating from 1928)
Bern, Kunsthalle, Phantastische Kunst - Surrealismus, 1966, no. 69 (as dating from 1928-29)
Tel Aviv, The Tel Aviv Museum, Le Surréalisme, 1966-67, no. 51 (as dating from 1928-29)
Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, René Magritte, 1996-97, no. 37, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art & San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Magritte, 1999-2000, no. 10 (in Humlebæk); no. 25 (in San Francisco), illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Vienna, Kunstforum & Basel, Fondation Beyeler, René Magritte. Der Schlüssel der Träume, 2005, no. 23, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Harry Torczyner, Magritte: Ideas and Images, New York, 1977, no. 127, illustrated p. 89 (as dating from 1928-29)
David Sylvester (ed.) & Sarah Whitfield, René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné, London, 1992, vol. I, no. 192, illustrated p. 253
Retrospective Magritte (exhibition catalogue), Museum of Art, Mitsukoshi; Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo & Museum of Art, Fukuoka, 1994-95, illustrated p. 72
signed Magritte (upper left)
oil on canvas
52 by 64cm.
20 1/2 by 25 1/8 in.
Painted in 1927.
