RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)

Lot 640
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ID 751490
Lot 640 | RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
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RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)Eloge de la dialectiquesigned 'Magritte' (lower left); titled and dated '"L'Eloge de la Dialectique" 1948' (on the reverse)gouache on paper14 x 17 7⁄8 in. (35.6 x 44.5 cm.)Painted in 1948 Provenance Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Paris (acquired from the artist, November 1948). William and Noma Copley, Longpont (acquired from the above). Gift from the above to Rosalind Gersten as a birthday present, 1955. Literature Letter from R. Magritte to A. Iolas, 8 January 1948. Letter from R. Magritte to A. Iolas, 24 January 1948. Letter from R. Magritte to A. Iolas, 8 November 1948.H. Torczyner, Magritte: Ideas and Images, New York, 1977, p. 133, no. 246 (illustrated).D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Collés, 1918-1967, New York, 1994, vol. IV, p. 116, no. 1285 (illustrated). Exhibited Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts and Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, René Magritte in America, December 1960-February 1961, no. 77 (titled L'Age du Dialectique).New York, Albert Landry Galleries, René Magritte in New York Private Collections, October-November 1961, no. 31 (titled L'Age du Dialectique). Little Rock, Arkansas Art Center, Magritte, May-June 1964. Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sweet Dreams and Nightmares: Dada and Surrealism from the Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection, March-May 2000, no. 9 (illustrated in color).Fukui Fine Arts Museum; Okazakai City Museum; Saitama Modern Art Museum; Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art and Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Man Ray: I Am an Enigma, June 2004-March 2005.New York, Pace/MacGill Gallery, The Long Arm of Coincidence: Selections from the Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection, April-May 2009, p. 3 (illustrated in color, pl. 9).
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