Lot 185
  • 185

Marcel Mariën

Estimate
3,500 - 4,500 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Marcel Mariën
  • Le Voyage du stylite
  • titled LE VOYAGE (lower left), signed Mariën and dated (vers 1938) (lower right)
  • collage and felt pen on paper
  • 39 x 19.9 cm; 15 3/8 x 7 3/4 in.

Provenance

Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels
Chantal and Guy Heytens, Monaco (and sold: Sotheby's, Paris, July 3, 2007, lot 103)
Acquired at the above sale by Dr. Arthur Brandt

Exhibited

Dunkirk, Ecole régionale des Beaux-Arts Georges Pompidou; Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, A la recherche de l'heure exacte 1013 ans avant l'an 3000, 1987, illustrated in the catalogue p. 19
Milan, Palazzo Reale, I Surrealisti, 1989, illustrated in the catalogue p. 489
Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot; Paris, Galerie Isy Brachot, Marcel Mariën, Rétrospective des rétrospectives, 1989-90, illustrated in the catalogue p. 15 (French edition)
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, L'Art en Belgique, 1990-91, illustrated in the catalogue p. 282
Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, René Magritte et la pensée, 1993

Condition

Collage on paper, laid down on the artist's mount, which is taped to the overmount on the reverse. The artist's mount in time-stained. All the collage elements are stable and secured. There is some minor undulation to the sheet, consistent with the application of medium. This work is in very good original condition.
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