ID 1225663
Lot 6 | RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
Estimate value
HKD 28 000 000 – 38 000 000
L’invitation au voyage
signed ‘Magritte’ (lower right)
oil on canvas
60.5 x 80 cm. (23 ¾ x 31 ½ in.)
Painted in April 1944
Provenance
Galerie Lou Cosyn, Brussels
Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s, London, 16 April 1975, lot 45
Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s, London, 4 July 1979, lot 125
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Literature
Letter from Magritte to Marcel Mariën, early April 1944.
Letter from Magritte to Marcel Mariën, 14 April 1944.
Letter from Magritte to Marcel Mariën, April 1944.
Letter from Magritte to Marcel Mariën, 12 July 1944.
R. Magritte, Dix tableaux de Magritte précédés de descriptions, Brussels, 1946.
R. Magritte, La Destination, lettres à Marcel Mariën, Brussels, 1977, nos. 84, 86, 87 & 113.
D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, Oil Paintings and Objects, 1931-1948, London, 1993, no. 558, p. 335 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Verviers, Société Royal des Beaux-Arts, René Magritte, January – February 1947, no. 16.
Artist: | René Magritte (1898 - 1967) |
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Artist: | René Magritte (1898 - 1967) |
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