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Property from a Private Swiss Collection I Provenant d'une Collection Particulière Suisse

René Magritte

L'État de veille

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Property from a Private Swiss Collection

René Magritte

1898 - 1967

L'État de veille


signed magritte (lower left); signed, dated and inscribed L'état de veille Magritte 1958 (on the reverse)

gouache on paper

19 x 25 cm; 7½ x 9⅞ in.

Executed in 1958.

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Provenant d'une Collection Particulière Suisse

René Magritte

1898 - 1967

L'État de veille


signé magritte (en bas à gauche); signé, daté et inscrit L'état de veille Magritte 1958 (au dos)

gouache sur paper

19 x 25 cm; 7½ x 9⅞ in.

Exécuté en 1958.

Robert Elkon Gallery, New York

Albert Landry Galleries, New York

Private collection, New York

Sotheby's New York, 11 May 1988, lot 173 (consigned by the above)

Private collection (acquired at the above sale)

Christie's London, 28 November 1989, lot 130

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Statement of account sent with letter from Magritte to Iolas, 12 November 1958

Jacques Wergifosse, "Magritte: à la rencontre du plaisir," La Meuse, October 1986, p. 50, illustrated

David Sylvester, Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn, eds., René Magritte ,Catalogue Raisonné: Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Collés 1918-1967, vol. IV, London, 1994, no. 1446, p. 208, illustrated  

New York, Albert Landry Galleries, René Magritte in New York Private Collections, 1961, no. 47 (titled Les Fenêtres)

New York, Byron Gallery, René Magritte, 1968, no. 37, p. 87, illustrated (titled Les Fenêtres)