RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)

Lot 123
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ID 1163992
Lot 123 | RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
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£ 600 000 – 900 000
RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)

Le duo

signed 'Magritte' (upper left); inscribed "LE DUO" (on the turnover edge)

oil on canvas

28 ¾ x 21 ¼ in. (73 x 54 cm.)

Painted in 1928





Provenance

(Probably) Galerie Le Centaure, Brussels.

E.L.T. Mesens, Brussels & London, by whom probably acquired from the above circa 1932-1933 and thence by descent; sale, Sotheby's, London, 4 April 1990, lot 341.

Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, by whom acquired at the above sale.

Private collection, Belgium, by whom acquired from the above in the early 1990s, and thence by descent to the present owners.



Literature

D. Sylvester, ed., & S. Whitfield, René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, Oil Paintings, 1916-1930, London, 1992, no. 221, p. 274 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Antwerp, Stedelijke Feestzaal-Meir, Kunst van Heden: salon 1956, October 1956, no. 105 or cat. 261.

Knokke, Casino Communal, XVe Festival belge d'été, L'œuvre de René Magritte, July - August 1962, no. 28, p. 44.
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