Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, New York
RENÉ MAGRITTE | LE SENS PROPRE
拍賣已結束
June 30, 03:09 AM GMT
估價
2,500,000 - 3,500,000 USD
拍品資料
描述
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, New York
RENÉ MAGRITTE
1898 - 1967
LE SENS PROPRE
Signed Magritte (lower left); inscribed Le Sens Propre (5) (on the turnover edge)
Oil on canvas
28⅞ by 21⅜ in.
73.4 by 54.3 cm
Painted in 1929.
Galerie Le Centaure (and sold at their liquidation sale: Brussels, October 21, 1932)
Edouard Léon Théodore Mesens, Brussels (acquired at the above sale)
Private Collection, Brussels (by descent from the above)
Di Donna Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above
Letter from Magritte to Rapin in Mirabelle Dors & Maurice Rapin, eds., Quatre-vingt-deux lettres de René Magritte à Mirabelle Dors et Maurice Rapin,
1976
David Sylvester, Sarah Whitfield & Michael Raeburn, eds., René Magritte Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, London, 1992, no. 310, illustrated p. 337
Robert Hughes, Magritte, Ghent & Amsterdam, 2001, illustrated in color p. 117
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Exposition René Magritte, 1933, no. 33
Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, L’Éternel Surréalisme (Hommage discret à E.L.T. Mesens), 1970, no. 34
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts & Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, Rétrospective Magritte, 1978-79, no. 92, illustrated in the catalogue (titled L’Automate)