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Timeless Nature: Property from a Private New York Collection

René Magritte

Les Grâces naturelles

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2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD

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Timeless Nature: Property from a Private New York Collection

René Magritte

(1898 - 1967)


Les Grâces naturelles

inscribed Magritte, numbered 3/5 and stamped with the foundry mark Fonderia Artistica Gi · Bi · Esse Verona-Italy

bronze

Height: 41 ½ in.

105. 4 cm.

Conceived and cast in 1967.

Alexander Iolas, New York

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1973)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

Pierre Rouve, "Space conquered," Art and Artists, London, August 1968, pp. 24-27, illustration of another cast 

Robert Melville, "Changing the world," The Architectural Review, London, September 1968, no. 12, p. 209; p. 210, illustration of another cast 

Alexander Iolas, Magritte: The 8 Sculptures, Paris, 1968, n.p., illustration in color of another cast

Exh. Cat., London, Hanover Gallery and Paris, Alexander Iolas, The 8 Sculptures of Magritte, 1968-69, n.p., illustration in color of another cast

Suzi Gablik, Magritte, Greenwich, 1970, no. 164, p. 179, illustration of another cast; p. 181 

Exh. Cat., Houston, Institute for the Arts, Rice University, Secret Affinities: Words and Images by René Magritte, 1976-77, p. 28, illustration of another cast

Jacques Meurius, Magritte, Paris, 1988, no. 312, p. 199; p. 202, illustration of another cast 

Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn; David Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. III, London, 1993, 1092, p. 464, illustration of another cast