Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
Property from a Private French Collection
Auction Closed
October 29, 01:50 AM GMT
Estimate
1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private French Collection
RENÉ MAGRITTE
1898 - 1967
LA BELLE LURETTE
Signed Magritte (lower left)
Oil on canvas
13 by 16⅛ in.
33 by 41 cm
Painted in 1965.
Private Collection, Belgium (acquired from the artist and sold: Sotheby’s, London, November 12, 1970, lot 72)
H.R. Chancellor (acquired at the above sale)
Christian Fayt Art Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
Private Collection, Belgium (acquired from the above circa 1979)
Galerie Haas, Zurich
Acquired from the above in 2015
Patrick Waldberg, Magritte, Peintures, Paris, 1983, illustrated in color p. 67
David Sylvester, Sarah Whitfield & Michael Raeburn, eds., René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné: Oil Paintings, Objects and Bronzes 1949-1967, vol. III, London, 1993, no. 1023, illustrated p. 418
Knokke-Heist, Belgium, Christian Fayt Art Gallery, Sélection 1, 1978, no. 30
Paris & Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, Magritte, 1979, no. 23
Milan, Galleria del Milione, Magritte. Il buon senso e il senso delle cose, 1984, no. 17, illustrated
Milan, Palazzo Reale, Magritte, il Mistero della natura, 2008-09