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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 6, 2013 | Christie's | London | The Art Of The Surreal | 121 | $****** - ****** | A la rencontre du plaisir (Towards Pleasure) | |||
May 5, 2004 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Works on Paper | 303 | $****** - ****** | A la rencontre du plaisir | |||
Nov 19, 1998 | Christie's | New York | The Collection of Harry Torczyner, Esq. - 20th Century Art | 315 | $****** - ****** | Rencontre du plaisir |
paintings
50 x 60 cm (19.69 x 23.62 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'Magritte' (lower left); signed again, dated and titled 'Magritte (1950) "À LA RENCONTRE DU PLAISIR"' (on the reverse)
Harry Torczyner Esq., New York, by whom acquired directly from the artist in Ferbuary 1958; Estate sale, Christie's, New York, 19 November 1998, lot 315.
Private collection, United States, by whom acquired from the above;
sale, Christie's New York, 5 May 2004, lot 303A.
Private collection, New York.
New York, Hugo Gallery, Magritte, March-April 1951, no. 17. Verviers, Cave des Temps Mêlés, Exposition: Magritte, March 1953, no. 7. Liège, Galerie du Carré, René Magritte, September - October 1953, no. 6. Brussels, La Sirène, Oeuvres récentes de René Magritte, October 1953, no. 20. Dallas, Museum for Contemporary Arts, René Magritte in America, December 1960 - January 1961, no. 31; this exhibition later travelled to Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, February 1961. New York, Albert Landry Galleries, René Magritte in New York Private Collections, October-November 1961, no. 13. Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, The Vision of René Magritte, September - October 1962, no. 29 (illustrated). London, Arts Council of Great Britain (Tate Gallery), Magritte, February - March 1969, no. 71 (illustrated).
Letter from R. Magritte to L. Scutenaire, June 1950. Letter from R. Magritte to A. Iolas, 17 August 1950. P. Waldberg, René Magritte, Brussels, 1965, p. 52 (illustrated). I. Clurman, Surrealism and the Painting of Matta and Magritte, Stanford, California, 1970, p. 16. R. Passeron, René Magritte, Paris, 1970, p. 36 (illustrated). A. Robbe-Grillet & R. Magritte, La belle captive, Brussels, 1975, p. 134 (illustrated). H. Torczyner, Magritte: Ideas and Images, New York, 1977, no. 440, p. 199 (illustrated). H. Torczyner, L'ami Magritte: correspondance et souvenirs, Antwerp, 1992, pp. 58, 171 & 234 (illustrated p. 32). F. Robinson, The Man in the Bowler Hat, Chapel Hill and London,. 1993, no. 46, p. 143 (illustrated). D. Sylvester, ed., S. Whitfield & M. Raeburn, René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné, London, 1993, vol. III, no. 724, p. 158 (illustrated). R. Magritte, Magritte/Torczyner: Letters Between Friends, New York, 1994, p. 79 (illustrated).
