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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 1, 2011 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Evening Sale | 59 | $****** - ****** | Les belles réalités |
paintings
50 x 40 cm (19.69 x 15.75 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'Magritte' (lower left); titled '"Les belles Réalités"' (on the reverse)
Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels (by 1968).
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1980.
Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, Dix maîtres contemporains, June-August 1968, no. 45 (illustrated). Hanover, Kestner Gesellschaft and Kunsthaus Zurich, René Magritte, May-July 1969, no. 72. Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, L'Eternal surrealism (hommage discret à E.L.T. Mesens), October-December 1970, no. 41. Paris and Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, Magritte, January-May 1979, no. 29. Milan, Galleria il Milione, R. Magritte, May-June 1986.
H. Michaux, "En rêvant à partir de peintures énigmatiques" in Mercure de France, Paris, December 1964, p. 597. H. Torczyner, Magritte, Ideas and Images, New York, 1977, p. 120, no. 209 (illustrated in color). D. Sylvester, René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné, oil paintings, objects and bronzes, 1949-1967, New York, 1993, vol. III, p. 360, no. 945 (illustrated). D. Ottinger, ed., Magritte, Montreal, 1996, p. 32 (illustrated). J. Meuris, René Magritte, Cologne, 2004, p. 96 (illustrated in color).
