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Property from the Neumann Family Collection
Le Feu souterrain
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Property from the Neumann Family Collection
René Magritte
1898 - 1967
Le Feu souterrain
signed Magritte (lower right); titled (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
21 ½ by 28 ¾ in. 54.5 by 73 cm.
Executed in 1935.
Alan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago
Rose and Morton G. Neumann, Chicago (acquired from the above circa 1950)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Les Beaux-Arts, 2 April 1937, p. 21, illustrated (in an installation photograph of London, New Burlington Galleries, The International Surrealist Exhibition, 1936)
“Surrealism in Belgium,” View, December 1946, n.p., illustrated (in a photograph with the artist)
Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn; David Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, London, 1993, no. 386, p. 33, 47, 210, 211 and 213, illustrated
Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn; David Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. IV, London, 1994, p. 15
Alex Danchev, Magritte: A Life, New York, 2020, p. 400, note 4
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, René Magritte: peintures, objets surréalistes, 1936, no. 11
London, New Burlington Galleries, The International Surrealist Exhibition, 1936, no. 175
Chicago, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, René Magritte, 1964, no. 11 (titled Le Souterrain Fou)
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections, 1984, p. 168, illustrated
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, The Morton G. Neumann Family Collection: Selected Works, vol. I, 1980, no. 45, p. 50, illustrated; vol. II, p. 31
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Twentieth-Century Art: Selections for the Tenth Anniversary of the East Building, 1988-90