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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 17, 2022 | Christie's | New York | 20th Century Evening Sale | 33 | $****** - ****** | Le monde visible | |||
Feb 8, 2005 | Sotheby's | London | Surrealist Art | 74 | $****** - ****** | Le monde visible |
paintings
100.3 x 81 cm (39.5 x 31.88 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'Magritte' (lower right); titled and inscribed '"LE MONDE VISIBLE" 1947' (on the reverse)
Renée Lachowsky and Lou Cosyn, Brussels (probably acquired from the artist).
L. Lachowsky, Antwerp (by 1971).
Harry Forster, Antwerp; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 15 May 1984, lot 75a.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 8 February 2005, lot 74.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owners.
Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art and Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art, Rétrospective René Magritte , May 1971-September 1971, no. 32 (illustrated; dated 1947).
A. Robbe-Grillet and R. Magritte, La Belle captive , Brussels, 1975, pp. 40 and 154 (illustrated in color, p. 39; dated 1947).
D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, Oil Paintings, Objects and Bronzes, 1949-1967 , 1993, vol. III, p. 369, no. 956 (illustrated).
RENE MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
Le monde visible
signed 'Magritte' (lower right); titled and inscribed '"LE MONDE VISIBLE" 1947' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
39 1/2 x 31 7/8 in. (100.2 x 81.1 cm.)
Painted in 1962
