RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)

Lot 101
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ID 1163999
Lot 101 | RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
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£ 450 000 – 650 000
RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)

Le principe d'Archimède

signed 'Magritte' (lower left)

gouache on paper

6 x 7 in. (15.1 x 17.8 cm.)

Executed in 1952





Provenance

Pauline Davis, and thence by descent; sale, Christie's, New York, 5 November 2003, lot 129.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

Letter from Magritte to Gasparo del Corso, 6 November 1952.

Letter from Magritte to Gasparo del Corso, 11 December 1952.

D. Sylvester, ed., S. Whitfield & M. Raeburn, René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. IV, Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Collés 1918-1967, London, 1994, no. 1339, p. 146 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Rome, Galleria dell'Obelisco, Magritte, January - February 1953, no. 20.
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