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Property from an Important Private American Collection

René Magritte

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