RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)

Lot 60
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ID 1472414
Lot 60 | RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
Estimate value
£ 300 000 – 500 000
RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
La veillée (The Vigil)
signed 'Magritte' (lower left)
collage with gouache, watercolour and Conté crayon on paper
13 ½ x 16 ¾ in. (34.3 x 42.6 cm.)
Executed in 1961




Provenance

Private collection, Brussels, by whom acquired directly from the artist circa 1961.
Private collection, Europe, by whom acquired from the above circa 2006; sale, Christie’s, London, 23 June 2010, lot 58.
Acquired at the above sale, and thence by descent to the present owner.



Literature

D. Sylvester, René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné, vol. IV, Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Collés 1918-1967, Antwerp, 1994, no. 1635, p. 311 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Ostend, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Kunstbezit in ieders bereik, June - July 1961, no. 44.
Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 41e Salon [du] Cercle Royal Artistique et Littéraire de Charleroi, including an ‘Hommage à René Magritte’, February 1968, no. 134.
Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, Rétrospective Magritte dans les collections privées, January - March 1988, p. 208 (illustrated p. 209).
Lausanne, Fondation de l’Hermitage, Au fil des collections, de Tiepolo à Degas, January - May 2012, no. 68, no. 197 (illustrated p. 184).
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