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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 2, 2017 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale | 321 | $****** - ****** | SANS TITRE | |||
Mar 25, 1992 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art by 20th Century Artists | 48 | Estimates not disclosed | Sans titre |
Works on Paper
24.8 x 30.3 cm (9.76 x 11.93 in)
pen and ink on paper
signed Magritte and dated 24. (lower left)
E.L.T. Mesens, Brussels (a gift from the artist in 1924)
Georges Melly, London (a gift from the above in 1968; sale: Sotheby's, London, 25th March 1992, lot 48)
Galerie Ronny Van de Velde, Antwerp (purchased at the above sale)
H.G. Collection, Knokke
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts; Paris, Musée National d'art Moderne & Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Rétrospective René Magritte, 1978-79, no. 193, illustrated in the catalogue
Ostend, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Ensor à Delvaux, 1996
Antwerp, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 2002, illustrated in the catalogue
Paris, Musée Maillol, Magritte tout en papier, 2006, illustrated in the catalogue
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Voici Magritte, 2006, illustrated in the catalogue
Ostend, Mu.Zee, Het sterrenalfabet van ELT Mesens, 2013, illustrated in the catalogue
Knokke, Galerie Ronny Van de Velde, Éros c'est la vie, 2014, illustrated in the catalogue
Naples (Florida), The Baker Museum, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie: Magritte and the Belgian Surrealists, 2015, illustrated
Knokke, Galerie Ronny Van de Velde, Dada in Knokke, 2016, illustrated in the catalogue
Œsophage I, March 1925, illustrated p. 10
Marcel Mariën, L’Activité surréaliste en Belgique, 1979, illustrated p. 108
David Sylvester, René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné, Oil paintings 1916-1930, London, 1992, vol I, fig. 73, illustrated p. 51
Some of the flowers were executed by George Mesens.
