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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 13, 2025 | Sotheby's | New York | Modern Evening Auction | 11 | $****** - ****** | La Traversée difficile |
paintings
81.3 x 100.3 cm (32 x 39.5 in)
oil on canvas
signed Magritte (lower left); titled (on the reverse)
Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Paris (acquired directly from the artist in 1963)
Private Collection (acquired from the above circa 1966)
Renato Casella, Venice (acquired by November 1984)
Galleria il Milione, Milan
Acquired from from the above in 1985 by the present owner
Paris, Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Magritte , 1964, no. 24
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Waltham, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University; Art Institute of Chicago; Pasadena Museum of Art and Berkeley, University of California Museum, René Magritte , 1965-66, no. 80, p. 62, illustrated; p. 80 (dated 1964)
Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti, René Magritte , 1986, no. 28, p. 145; p. 201, illustrated in color
Letter from Magritte to André Bosmans, 19 October 1963
S. Frigerio, Beaux-Arts , Brussels, no. 1069, 26 November 1964, p. 14
Patrick Waldberg, René Magritte , Brussels, 1965, p. 247, illustrated
José Vovelle, Le Surréalisme en Belgique , Brussels, 1972, p. 85, pl. 67, illustrated
Harry Torczyner, Magritte: Ideas and Images , 1977, pp. 261 and 268
René Magritte and André Bosmans; Francine Perceval, ed., Lettres à André Bosmans , 1958-1967 , Paris, 1990, p. 319
Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn; David Sylvester, ed., Rene Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné , vol. III, London, 1993, no. 982, p. 389, illustrated; p. 440
Suzi Gablik, Magritte , London, 1985, no. 27, p. 35, illustrated; p. 200
René-Marie Jongen, René Magritte, ou, La pensée imagée de l"invisible: réflexions et recherches , Brussels, 1994, p. 35, note 27
Henri Laborit, La Légende des comportements , Paris, 1994, pp. 118-19, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., London, South Bank Centre, Magritte , p. 64, note 2
Patrick Roegiers, Magritte and Photography , New York, 2005, p. 103
Property from a European Collection
René Magritte
(1898 - 1967)
La Traversée difficile
signed Magritte (lower left); titled (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
32 by 39 ½ in. 81.3 by 100.2 cm.
Executed in 1963.
