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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 | 110 | $****** - ****** | Le plagiat (Plagiary) |
paintings
54 x 65 cm (21.26 x 25.59 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'Magritte' (upper right); titled "LE PLAGIAT" (on the reverse)
Ernest van Zuylen, Liège, acquired in 1940.
Private collection, Belgium, by whom acquired directly from the above in 1976, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Liège, Musée des Beaux Arts, Salon quatriennal de Belgique,. September - October 1940, no. 130. Charleroi, Salle de la Bourse, XXXe salon du Cercle Royal Artistique et Littéraire, 'Rétrospective René Magritte', March 1956, no. 69. Ostend, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Van Ensor tot Delvaux: Ensor, Spilliaert, Permeke, Magritte, Delvaux, October 1996 - February 1997 (illustrated).
Letter from Magritte to Mariën, 1938, in Magritte, Destination, no. 5. Letter from Magritte to Mariën, August 1938, in Magritte, Destination, no. 9. Letter from Magritte to Mariën, December 1939, in Magritte, Destination, no. 23. Letter from Magritte to Mariën, December 1939, in Magritte, Destination, no. 24. Letter from Magritte to Mariën, January 1940, in Magritte, Destination, no. 28. Letter from Magritte to Mariën, Ferbuary 1940, in Magritte, Destination, no. 30. M. Mariën, 'Le Plagiat', in L'Invention collective, Brussels, 1940. M. Mariën, L'Oiseau qui n'a qu'une aile, Antwerp, 1941, (illustrated on the frontispiece). 'Surrealism in Belgium' in View, New York, 1946, (illustrated on the cover). D. Sylvester & S. Whitfield, René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, Oil Paintings and Objects 1931-1948, Antwerp, 1993, no. 472, p. 276 (illustrated). S. Gohr, Magritte. Attempting the Impossible, Paris, 2009, no. 322, p. 235 (illustrated). D. Sylvester, Magritte, Brussels, 2009, p. 319 & 431 (illustrated p. 318). R. Hughes, Magritte en poche, London, 2009, p. 198 (illustrated).
