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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 | 134 | $****** - ****** | Les reflets du temps (Reflections of time) |
paintings
55.5 x 74.5 cm (21.85 x 29.33 in)
oil on canvas laid down on board
signed 'magritte' (lower right)
Galerie Le Centaure, Brussels. E.L.T. Mesens, Brussels, by 1932. Harold Diamond, New York, acquired from the above circa 1959-1960. Galerie Beyeler, Basel (no. 2304). Margareth Krebs, Brussels, by 1963.
Acquired by the present owner in 1964.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, De Onafhamkelijken Tentoonstelling met invites, fransche en belgische surrélisten, May - June 1930, (possibly) no. 4. Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Exposition René Magritte, May - June 1933, (possibly) no. 5. New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Magritte: Word vs Image, March 1954, no. 13. New York, Albert Landry Galleries, René Magritte in New York Private Collections, October - November 1961, (possibly) no. 2. Brussels, Musée d'Ixelles, Retrospective 'Le centaure': 1921/1931 hommage à Walter Schwarzenberg, February - March 1963, no. 93. Arnhem, Gemeentemuseum, Werkelijkheid en verbeelding: belgische surrealisten, July - September 1964, no. 31. Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, René Magritte: het mysterie van de werkelijkheid/le mystère de la réalité, August - September 1967, no. 20; this exhibition later travelled to Stockholm, Moderna Museet, October - November 1967. Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, L'Art et le temps: regards sur la quatrième dimension, November 1984 - January 1985; this exhibition later travelled to Geneva, Musée Rath, February - April 1985. Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, The Dada & Surrealist word-image, June - August 1989; this exhibition later travelled to Hartford, Conn., Wadsworth Athenaeum, October - December 1989, and Frankfurt, February - May 1990. Verona, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Palazzo Forti, Da Magritte a Magritte, July - October 1991. Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Magritte, 1898-1998, March - June 1998, no. 81.
D. Sylvester, ed., S. Whitfield & M. Raeburn, René Magritte. Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, Oil Paintings, 1916-1930, London, 1992, no. 293, p. 324 (illustrated). P. Waldberg, René Magritte, Brussels, 1965, p. 159 (illustrated). H. Torczyner, Magritte: Ideas and Images, New York, 1977, no. 270, p. 268, (illustrated p. 142). R. Hughes, Magritte en poche, Antwerp, 2009, p. 106 (illustrated).
