Modern Evening Auction
Modern Evening Auction
Property from an Esteemed European Collection
La Main heureuse
Auction Closed
May 16, 12:52 AM GMT
Estimate
800,000 - 1,200,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Esteemed European Collection
René Magritte
1898 - 1967
La Main heureuse
signed Magritte (lower left); titled and dated 1952 (on the reverse)
gouache on paper
5 ⅞ by 7 in.
14.8 by 17.8 cm.
Executed in 1952.
The Country Art Gallery, Westbury, New York
Madeleine and Milton Gardner, Old Westbury, New York (probably acquired from the above)
Sotheby’s, New York, 19 November 1986, lot 145 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection
Sotheby’s, London, 30 November 1988, lot 512 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Postcard from Magritte and others to Nougé, June 1952, in Magritte Nougé, no. 38
René Magritte in La Carte d'après Nature, no. 1, October 1952
Letter from Magritte to del Corso, 6 November 1952
Letter from Magritte to del Corso, 11 December 1952
Letter from Magritte to Iolas, 13 January 1954
“René Magritte,” 15 March 1956 (lecture given on the occasion of the 1956 Charleroi exhibition) in Camille Goemans, Oeuvre 1922-1957, Brussels, 1965, pp. 223-24
René Magritte, La Destination, Brussels, 1977, letter no. 250, pp. 172-73 and pp. 278-81; letter no. 255, pp. 284-85; letter no. 256, pp. 286-87
Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn; David Sylvester, ed., René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. IV, London, 1994, no. 1340, pp. 146-47, illustrated
Rome, Galleria dell'Obelisco, René Magritte, 1953, no. 28
Messina, I mostra internazionale di pittura ‘Città di Messina,' 1953
Huntington, The Heckscher Museum, Collecting/Sharing: The Madeleine and Milton Gardner Collection, 1982, n.n., illustrated on the cover
Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, Perspectives Prospectives, 1990
Skärhamn, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Magritte: A Lab of Ideas, 2022, fig. 47, p. 37, illustrated in color
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