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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 19, 2013 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 48 | $****** - ****** | L'idée |
paintings
41 x 33 cm (16.14 x 12.99 in)
oil on canvas
signed Magritte (upper left); titled on the reverse
Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Paris
Private Collection, Portugal (probably acquired from the above)
Andrée Stassart, Paris (acquired from the above in 1973)
Private Collection, Paris (acquired from the above in 1974)
Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels (acquired by 1986)
Arnold Herstand, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the late 1980s
Paris, Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Magritte: les images en soi, 1967 London, Marlborough Fine Art, Magritte, 1973, no. 83, illustrated in the catalogue Paris, Galerie Isy Brachot, Le Surréalisme en Belgique I, 1986, no. 22, illustrated in the catalogue New York, Arnold Herstand, René Magritte: Paintings, 1986 Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, Rétrospective Magritte dans les collections privées, 1988, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Letter from Magritte to Iolas, 28th December 1966; Lectures pour tous, November 1967, Brussels, detail illustrated p. 49; Suzi Gablik, Magritte, London, 1970, no. 145, illustrated ; Jacques Vovelle, Le Surréalisme en Belgique, Brussels, 1972, no. 165, illustrated p. 137; Harry Torczyner, Magritte: Ideas and Images, New York, 1977, no. 287, illustrated in colour p. 148; Pere Gimferrer, Magritte, Barcelona, 1986, no. 145, illustrated in colour on the cover; illustrated in colour; David Sylvester (ed.), Sarah Whitfield & Michael Raeburn, René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné, London, 1993, vol. III, no. 1053, illustrated p. 438
