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Property from an Esteemed European Collection

René Magritte

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