RÉNÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)

Lot 2
15.10.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1472406
Lot 2 | RÉNÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
Estimate value
£ 350 000 – 550 000
RÉNÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
La voix du sang (Blood will tell)
signed ‘Magritte’ (lower right); signed, dated and inscribed '"La Voix du Sang" Magritte 1947' (on the reverse)
gouache on paper laid down on card
7 x 5 in. (17.7 x 12.7 cm.)
Executed in 1947




Provenance

Mr van Hoof, Belgium, by whom acquired directly from the artist.
André Aerts, Belgium, a gift from the above.
Private collection, Belgium, and thence by descent; sale, Sotheby’s, London, 4 February 2010, lot 178.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

S. Whitfield, ed., René Magritte, Newly Discovered Works, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. VI, Brussels, 2012, no. 16, p. 32 (illustrated).



Exhibited

(Possibly) Brussels, Galerie Lou Cosyn, Exposition Magritte, May - June 1947.
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