ID 908316 
Lot 453  | RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
Estimate value
£ 50 000 – 80 000 
Dessin pour "Le sac à malice"
signed 'Magritte' (upper left)
ballpoint pen on paper
11 7/8 x 8 5/8 in. (30.2 x 22 cm.)
Executed in 1964
Provenance
Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York.
Hanover Gallery, London.
M. Jean Yves Mock, Paris; sale, Sotheby's, London, 9 February 2005, lot 347.
Private collection, by whom acquired at the above sale; sale, Pierre-Bergé & Associés, Paris, 12 December 2013, lot 13.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
D. Sylvester (ed.), S. Whitfield & M. Raeburn, René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. IV, Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Collés, 1918-1967, Antwerp, 1994, Fig. C, p. 225 (illustrated).
Exhibited
London, Hanover Gallery, Contrasts, July - August 1967, no. 35 (illustrated; titled 'Object' and dated '1966').
London, Hanover Gallery, Pen, Pencil & Paper, June - July 1970 (illustrated; dated '1966').
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
Post lot text
The Comité Magritte has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
| Artist: | René Magritte (1898 - 1967) | 
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| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic | 
| Art style: | Surrealism | 
| Place of origin: | Belgium, Western Europe, Europe | 
| Artist: | René Magritte (1898 - 1967) | 
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| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic | 
| Art style: | Surrealism | 
| Place of origin: | Belgium, Western Europe, Europe | 
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