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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 6, 2020 | Christie's | London | The Art Of The Surreal Evening Sale | 34 | $****** - ****** | Perspective: Le balcon de Manet |
paintings
80 x 60 cm (31.5 x 23.63 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'Magritte' (lower right); signed, inscribed and dated '"PERSPECTIVE (LE BALCON DE MANET)." MAGRITTE 1949' (on the reverse)
Alexander Iolas, New York, by whom acquired directly from the artist on 16 September 1949.
Jean and Dominique de Menil, Houston, by whom acquired from the above in 1954.
Alexander Iolas, New York, by whom acquired from the above, between 1961 and 1964.
Mario Tazzoli, Milan, by whom acquired from the above in 1964.
Dr Umberto Agnelli, Turin, by whom acquired from the above, by 1965.
Charles Byron, New York, by whom acquired from the above, circa 1969-1970.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the 1970s.
New York, Hugo Gallery, Magritte, March - April 1951, no. 6.
Dallas, Museum for Contemporary Arts, René Magritte in America, December 1960 - January 1961, no. 28, n.p. (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, February - March 1961.
Sarasota, John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, November - December 1961, no. 2; this exhibition later travelled to Macon, Mercer University, January 1962; Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, February - March 1962; Toronto, Art Gallery, March - April 1962; Denver, Art Museum, May - June 1962; Manchester, New Hampshire, The Currier Gallery of Art, August - September 1962; and Allentown, Art Museum, September - October 1962.
Paris, Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Magritte, Le sens propre, November 1964, no. 2, n.p.
Arezzo, Galleria Comunale d'arte contemporanea, Mitologie del nostro tempo, May - June 1965, p. 39 (illustrated; with inverted dimensions).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, René Magritte, December 1965 - February 1966, no. 47 (illustrated p. 46).
Statement of account, dated October 1949, sent by Magritte to Alexander Iolas in a letter, 2 March 1950.
Letter from Magritte to Alexander Iolas, 12 December 1949.
Letter from Magritte to Marcel Mariën, April 1950.
M. Mariën, Garde-Fou, 1950 (illustrated).
Letter from Magritte to Alexander Iolas, 1 June 1950.
Exh. cat, La peinture Belge contemporaine, Lyon, 1950 (illustrated fig. 31).
La Lanterne, Brussels, 16 April 1951, p. 4 (illustrated).
Letter from Harry Torczyner to Magritte, 2 March 1959.
Letter from Michel Foucault to Magritte, (probably) June 1966.
Letter from Magritte to Michel Foucault, 4 June 1966.
F. Cachin, ‘Magritte ou Mandrake contre Maigret’, in Preuves, Paris, July 1966, p. 80.
A. Pieyre de Mandiargues, ‘Un terroriste souriant’, in Le Nouvel Observateur, Paris, 3 September 1967, p. 31.
N. Calas, ‘Pearls of Magritte’, in Arts Magazine, New York, April 1972, p. 48.
M. Foucault, Ceci n’est pas une pipe, deux lettres et quatre dessins de René Magritte, Montpellier, 1973, p. 57.
M. Mariën, ed., L’Activité surréaliste en Belgique (1924-1950), Brussels, 1979, pp. 33-34.
D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné, vol. III, Oil Paintings, Objects and Bronzes, 1949-1967, Antwerp, 1993, no. 710, pp. 146-147 (illustrated p. 146).
signed 'Magritte' (lower right), signed, inscribed and dated '"PERSPECTIVE (LE BALCON DE MANET)." MAGRITTE 1949' (on the reverse)
