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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 28, 2023 | Christie's | London | The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale | 102 | $****** - ****** | Souvenir de voyage | |||
Feb 3, 2009 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 25 | $****** - ****** | Souvenir de voyage | |||
Dec 4, 2000 | Sotheby's | London | Surrealism | 3 | $****** - ****** | Souvenir de voyage |
paintings
40.3 x 30.5 cm (15.88 x 12 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'Magritte' (lower left)
Harry Torczyner, New York, by whom commissioned from the artist.
Bodley Gallery, New York, by whom acquired from the above by 1962.
Private collection, United States, by whom acquired from the above in 1964; sale, Sotheby's, London, 4 December 2000, lot 3.
Acquired at the above sale; sale, Sotheby's, London, 3 February 2009, lot 25.
Guggenheim, Asher, Associates, United States.
Private collection, United States.
Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco.
Acquired from the above by the present owners in 2020.
New York, Bodley Gallery, Magritte: Paintings, Gouaches, Collages, Drawings, October 1962, no. 9 (illustrated; dated '1952' and titled 'la tour de pise').
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, on loan, 1970.
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Magritte, December 1977, no. 17 (titled 'La nuit de Pise').
Letter from Magritte to Harry Torczyner, 8 October 1958, in H. Torczyner, L'ami Magritte. Correspondence et souvenirs , Antwerp, 1992, p. 86.
Letter from Magritte to Harry Torczyner, 20 October 1958, in H. Torczyner, L'ami Magritte. Correspondence et souvenirs , Antwerp, 1992, p. 87.
H. Torczyner, Magritte, Ideas and Images, New York, 1977, no. 85, p. 61 (illustrated; titled 'La Nuit de Pise').
D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. III, Oil Paintings, Objects and Bronzes, 1949-1967 , London, 1993, no. 881, pp. 294-295 (illustrated p. 294).
RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
Souvenir de voyage
signed 'Magritte' (lower left)
oil on canvas
15 7/8 x 12 in. (40.1 x 30.2 cm.)
Painted in August 1958
