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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 24, 2025 | Sotheby's | Paris | Surrealism and Its Legacy | 5 | $****** - ****** | La magie noire |
paintings
73 x 54 cm (28.75 x 21.25 in)
oil on canvas
signed Magritte (lower right); titled LA MAGIE NOIRE (on the stretcher)
Alice and Emile Lorge, Brussels (acquired by 1935)
Thence by descent to the present owners
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Exposition Minotaure , 1934, no. 71
Antwerp, Feestzaal, Kunst van heden: salon , 1935, no. 144
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, René Magritte: peintures, objets surréalistes , 1936, no. 4
Paris, Galerie Beaux-Arts, Exposition internationale du surréalisme , 1938
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Les Compagnons de l"art , 1938, no. 281
Knokke, Casino Communal, Ve Festival belge d"été: Expositions René Magritte - Paul Delvaux , 1952, no. 14
Paris, L"Etoile scellée, Labisse, Magritte, Dominguez , 1954
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, René Magritte , 1954, no. 44
Venice, XXVII Biennale di Venezia, 1954, no. 41
Brussels, Musée d"Ixelles, Magritte , 1959, no. 31
Paris, Galerie Daniel Cordier, L"exposition internationale du Surréalisme 1956-1960 , 1960
Knokke, Casino Communal, X Ve festival belge d"été: L"œuvre de René Magritte , 1962, no. 45
Mons, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Hainaut cinq , 1964, no. 7
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, René Magritte: het mysterie van de werkelijkheid / le mystère de la réalité , 1967, no. 35
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, René Magritte , 1967, no. 29
Paris, Galerie Arts/Contacts, Magritte, Delvaux, Gnoli dans la collection Claude Spaak , 1972
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Magritte , 1973, no. 22
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Rétrospective Magritte, 1978, no. 10
Paris, Musée d"Art Moderne, Centre National d"Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Rétrospective Magritte , 1979, no. 10
Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum, René Magritte , 1983-1984, no. 53
Høvikodden, Kunstsentret, Sonja Henies og Niels Onstads Stiftelser, René Magritte : Paintings and Photographs , 1984, no. 40
Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Magritte , 2024-2025, p. 105, no. 28
Letter from René Magritte to André Breton, 22 June 1934
Paul Nougé, ‘René Magritte ou la révélation objective", in Les Beaux-Arts , Brussels, 1936, pp. 18-19
Paul Colinet, ‘Pour illustrer Magritte", in Le fait accompli , no. 51, Brussels, 1971
Letter from René Magritte to Paul Eluard, 4 December 1941
Marcel Mariën, Magritte , Brussels, 1943, p. 13
Wladimir Chvek, Anarchasis , Antwerp, 1944, pp. 19-17
René Magritte, Ecrits , Brussels, 1948, pp. 261-262
Marcel Jean, Histoire de la peinture surréaliste , Paris, 1959, p. 185
José Vovelle, ‘Trois approches du réalisme à partir de la peinture métaphysique: Roy, Magritte et Willink", in Le retour à l"ordre dans les arts plastiques et l"architecture, 1919-1925 , Saint Etienne, 1975
David Sylvester and Sarah Whitfield, René Magritte: Catalogue raisonné, Oil Paintings and Objects, 1931-1948, vol. II , Londres, 1993, no. 355, pp. 187-188, illustrated
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION, BELGIUM
René Magritte
1898 - 1967
La magie noire
signed Magritte (lower right); titled LA MAGIE NOIRE (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
73 x 54 cm; 28¾ x 21¼ in.
Executed in 1934.
