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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 12, 2019 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale | 6A | $****** - ****** | Le Sabbat | |||
Jun 18, 2007 | Christie's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art - Evening Sale | 63 | $****** - ****** | Le Sabbat |
paintings
50.2 x 60.6 cm (19.75 x 23.88 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'Magritte' (upper right); titled '"LE SABBAT"' (on the reverse)
Alexander Iolas, New York (acquired from the artist, by March 1959).
Patrick O'Higgins, New York (acquired from the above and until at least 1964).
Mayor Gallery, London.
Anon. sale, Sotheby & Co., London, 2 December 1970, lot 57.
Galleria Medea, Milan.
Private collection (acquired from the above).
Galleria La Bussola, Turin (by 1986).
Private collection, Italy.
Private collection (acquired from the above); sale, Christie’s, London, 18 June 2007, lot 63.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, XXXIIIme Salon du cercle royal artistique et littéraire de Charleroi, March 1959, no. 120 (dated 1958-1959).
Brussels, Musée d'Ixelles, Magritte, April-May 1959, no. 102 (dated 1958 and with incorrect dimensions).
Paris, Galerie Rive Droite, René Magritte, February-March 1960, no. 3.
Little Rock, Arkansas Art Center, Magritte, May-June 1964 (illustrated).
A. Bosmans ed., "René Magritte" in Rhétorique, September 1961, no. 3 (illustrated, pl. 20).
(possibly) H. Michaux, En rêvant à partir de peintures énigmatiques, Paris, December 1964, p. 596.
F. Perceval, ed., René Magritte: Lettres à André Bosmans 1958-1967, Paris, 1990, pp. 51-52.
D. Sylvester ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, Oil Paintings, Objects and Bronzes, 1949-1967, London, 1993, vol. III, p. 306, no. 898 (illustrated).
signed 'Magritte' (upper right); titled '"LE SABBAT"' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
19 ¾ x 23 7/8 in. (50 x 60.7 cm.)
Painted in February 1959
