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RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)

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14.05.2022 09:30UTC -04:00
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ID 751486
Lot 671 | RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)Le Manteau de Pascalbrush and India ink and inkwash with white heightening on papersigned 'Magritte' (upper right)9 3⁄4 x 7 1⁄8 in. (24.7 x 18 cm.)Painted in 1954 Provenance Bodley Gallery, New York (acquired from the artist). Acquired from the above by the late owners, April 1958. Literature La Carte d'après nature, no. 8, January 1955 (illustrated).D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Collés, 1918-1967, New York, 1994, vol. IV, pp. 164-165, no. 1373 (illustrated). Exhibited Bodley Gallery, New York, René Magritte: Contemporary Belgian Surrealist, April 1958.Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts and Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, René Magritte in America, December 1960-February 1961, no. 78. New York, Albert Landry Galleries, René Magritte in New York Private Collections, October-November 1961, no. 32.Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sweet Dreams and Nightmares: Dada and Surrealism from the Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection, March-May 2000, no. 10 (illustrated in color; dated 1957).New York, Pace/MacGill Gallery, The Long Arm of Coincidence: Selections from the Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection, April-May 2009 (illustrated in color; dated 1957).Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Magritte: La trahison des images, September 2016-June 2017, p. 28 (illustrated in color; dated 1957).
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