Modern Evening Auction
Modern Evening Auction
Property from an Important Private American Collection
Le Banquet
Auction Closed
May 16, 12:52 AM GMT
Estimate
15,000,000 - 20,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Private American Collection
René Magritte
1898 - 1967
Le Banquet
signed Magritte (lower left); titled and dated 1955 (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
29 ¾ by 47 ⅝ in.
75.5 by 121 cm.
Executed circa 1955-57.
Ruth Moskin Fineshriber, New York (acquired circa 1956)
Fineshriber Family Foundation, Culver City (acquired as a gift from the above)
Christie's, New York, 9 May 2007, lot 7 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)
Sotheby's, New York, 14 November 2017, lot 36 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Letter from Alexander Iolas to René Magritte, 8 December 1957
Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn; David Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. III, 1993, no. 857, p. 272, illustrated
Tournai, Halle du Draps, Ve salon triennal des beaux-arts du Hainaut, 1957, no. 67
(possibly) The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Magritte, 1964, no. 1
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