René Magritte

Souvenir de voyage

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Pillars of Modernism: Property from a Private European Collection

René Magritte

1898 - 1967

Souvenir de voyage

signed Magritte (upper right); titled “Souvenir de Voyage”, numbered (II) and dated 1950 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

14 by 18 ⅛ in. 35.4 by 46.1 cm.

Executed in 1950.

Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist in 1951)

Ippolito Simonis, Turin (acquired by 1965)

Champin, Lombrail and Gautier, Enghien-les-Bains, 21 June 1990, lot 14

Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels (acquired in 1990)

Private Collection (acquired from the above in the early 1990s)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Letter from Magritte to Iolas, 26 April 1951

Letter from Iolas to Magritte, 5 June 1951

Letter from Magritte to Iolas, 8 June 1951

André Bosmans, La Première Vue, Chaville, 1962, n.p., a detail illustrated

David Sylvester, ed., René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. III, London, 1992, no. 736, p. 164, illustrated

David Sylvester, Magritte, The Silence of the World, New York, 1992, p. 281, illustrated in color

Brussels, Galeries Dietrich and Lois Cosyn, Exposition Magritte, 1951, no. 18
Turin, Galleria Notizie, Magritte: opera scelte dal 1925 al 1962, 1965, n.n. (titled Nature morte pietrifié)
Arezzo, Galleria Communale d’Arte Contemporanea, Sala di San Ignazio, Mitologie del nostro tempo, 1965, n.n., p. 36, illustrated (titled Souvenir de voyage II)
Milan, Galleria del Naviglio, E.L.T. Mesens, 1965
London, The Hayward Gallery; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Houston, The Menil Collection and The Art Institute of Chicago, Magritte, 1992-93, no. 102, n.p., illustrated in color in the catalogue
Montreal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Magritte, 1996, no. 109, p. 187, illustrated in color (titled Memory of a Journey II)
Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrehein-Westfalen, René Magritte: die Kunst der Konversation, 1996-97, no. 86, p. 168, illustrated in color
Luxembourg, Nationalmuseum für Geschichte und Kunst des Grossherzogtums (on loan by 1996)