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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 12, 2019 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 18 | $****** - ****** | LE CICÉRONE | |||
Jun 27, 1988 | Christie's | London | Impressionist & Modern Paintings & Sculpture | 60 | Estimates not disclosed | Le Cicerone |
paintings
60 x 50 cm (23.62 x 19.69 in)
Oil on canvas
Signed Magritte (lower right)
Dr. Paul Wiringer, Brussels (acquired from the artist by 1959 and until at least 1966)
Marlborough Fine Art, London
Sale: Christie's, New York, May 15, 1979, lot 70
Sale: Christie's, London, June 27, 1988, lot 60
Acquired at the above sale
Brussels, Galerie Lou Cosyn, Les Tableaux parlants de René Magritte, 1949
Charleroi, Galerie du Parc, Magritte: Le Nouveau monde, 1950
Verviers, Cave des temps mêlés, Exposition: Magritte, 1953, no. 8
Odense; Copenhagen & traveling, Vandreudstillingen 1953-1954: Europa Kunst, 1953-54, no. 5
Antwerp, Stedelijke Feestzaal-Meir Antwerpen, Kunst van heden: Salon 1956, 1956, no. 110
Brussels, Musée d'lxelles, Magritte, 1959, no. 72
Liège, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Exposition Magritte, 1960, no. 41
Utrecht, Centraal Museum, Belgische Schilderkunst van 1890-heden, 1966, no. 71
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Magritte, 1973, no. 55, illustrated in the catalogue
New York, Davlyn Gallery, Magritte: Paintings, Gouaches, Collages, 1974-75, no. 3, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Brussels, Musée Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, René Magritte 1898-1967, 1998, no. 152, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Letter from Magritte to Andrieu, September 6, 1948
Indépendance, Charleroi, May 9, 1950, p. 6
Camille Goemans, "À la Galerie Louis Cosyn: Magritte et ses tableaux parlants" in Les
Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Brussels, February 11, 1949, p. 8
David Sylvester & Sarah Whitfield, René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonne, Oil Paintings & Objects, 1931-1948, vol. II, London, 1993, no. 662, illustrated p. 414
Signed Magritte (lower right)
Oil on canvas
23 1/2 by 19 1/2 in.
60 by 50 cm
Painted in 1948.
