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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 29, 2020 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 109 | $****** - ****** | L'OVATION |
paintings
89 x 116 cm (35.04 x 45.67 in)
Oil on canvas
Alexander Iolas, New York (acquired from the artist in 1962)
Jean & Dominique de Menil, Houston (acquired from the above in 1965)
Alexander Iolas, New York (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above on January 15, 1985
Knokke, Casino Communal, XVe festival belge d'été: L'Oeuvre de René Magritte, 1962, no. 104
Milan, Galleria Schwarz, Magritte, 1962, n.n.
Rome, L'Attico, Magritte, 1963, n.n.
(probably) Geneva, Galerie Alexander Iolas, Magritte, 1963, n.n.
Paris, Galerie Alexander Iolas & New York, Iolas Gallery, Magritte: le sens propre, 1964, no. 16
54 64: Painting and Sculpture of a Decade (exhibition catalogue), Tate Gallery, London, 1964, illustrated n.p.
Metro International Directory of Contemporary Art 1964, Milan, 1964, illustrated p. 218
René Magiritte, André Bosmans & Francine Perceval, Lettres à André Bosmans: 1958-1967, Paris, 1990, pp. 238-39 & 241-43
David Sylvester, ed., Sarah Whitfield & Michael Raeburn,
René Magritte. Catalogue Raisonné, Oil Paintings, Objects and Bronzes 1949-1967, vol. III, London, 1993, no. 943, illustrated p. 358
