RENE MAGRITTE (1898-1967)

Lot 33
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Lot 33 | RENE MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
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RENE MAGRITTE (1898-1967)

Le monde visible

signed 'Magritte' (lower right); titled and inscribed '"LE MONDE VISIBLE" 1947' (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

39 1/2 x 31 7/8 in. (100.2 x 81.1 cm.)

Painted in 1962





Provenance

Renée Lachowsky and Lou Cosyn, Brussels (probably acquired from the artist).

L. Lachowsky, Antwerp (by 1971).

Harry Forster, Antwerp; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 15 May 1984, lot 75a.

Anon. sale, Sotheby’s, London, 8 February 2005, lot 74.

Acquired at the above sale by the late owners.



Literature

A. Robbe-Grillet and R. Magritte, La Belle captive, Brussels, 1975, pp. 40 and 154 (illustrated in color, p. 39; dated 1947).

D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, Oil Paintings, Objects and Bronzes, 1949-1967, 1993, vol. III, p. 369, no. 956 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art and Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art, Rétrospective René Magritte, May 1971-September 1971, no. 32 (illustrated; dated 1947).
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