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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 14, 2017 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 56 | $****** - ****** | LA DIALECTIQUE APPLIQUÉE |
paintings
60.9 x 80.6 cm (23.98 x 31.73 in)
Oil on canvas
Signed Magritte (lower right) and titled "Le Dialectique appliquée" (on the stretcher)
Sale: Pierre Bergé & Associés, Brussels, 1961
François & Evelyn Deknop, Brussels & Gérard & Suzi Oschinksy, Brussels (acquired jointly at the above sale)
Gérard & Suzi Oschinksy, Brussels
Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels (acquired from the above in 1966)
Sale: Christie's, London, April 6, 1976, lot 39
Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)
Bodley Gallery, New York
Acquired by 1993
Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, Art sans frontières VII, 1972, no. 44
Hamburg, Kunstverein, 1982, no. 151
Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Magritte e il surrealismo in Belgio, 1982, no. 146
Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, René Magritte de la Surrealisme en Belgique, 1982, no. 164, illustrated in the catalogue
New York, The Elkon Gallery, Delvaux - Magritte, 1988, n.n., illustrated in the catalogue
Yamaguchi, The Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art; Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art & Tokyo, Tokyo Shimbun, René Magritte, 1988, no. 138
Berkeley, University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, Anxious Visions Surrealist Art, 1990, no. 93
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Face à l'histoire, 1996-97, no. 742
Brussels, Musée Roaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Retrospective René Magritte, 1998, n.n.
Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Art, Surrealism, A Cross Cultural Perspective, 2000-01, no. 136
Tokyo, The National Art Center & Kyoto, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, René Magritte: The Search for the Absolute, 2015
Art sans frontières VII (exhibition catalogue), Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, 1972, illustrated on an invitation card
David Sylvester & Sarah Whitfield, René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné, Oil Paintings and Objects 1931-1948, New York, 1993, vol. II, no. 578, illustrated p. 351
Signed Magritte (lower right) and titled "Le Dialectique appliquée" (on the stretcher)
Oil on canvas
24 by 31 3/4 in.
60.9 by 80.6 cm
Painted in 1944 or 1945.
