RENE MAGRITTE (1898-1967)

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ID 842753
Lot 2 | RENE MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
RENE MAGRITTE (1898-1967)

L'autre son de cloche

signed 'Magritte' (lower left)

gouache on card

5 3/4 x 7 5/8 in. (13.5 x 19.4 cm.)

Painted in fall 1952





Provenance

Galleria dell'Obelisco, Rome (acquired from the artist, December 1952).

Obelisk Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Paul and Rachel Mellon, New York (acquired from the above, 1954); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 10 November 2014, lot 1.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

Letter from R. Magritte to G. del Corso, 6 November 1952.

Letter from R. Magritte to G. del Corso, 11 December 1952.

D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Collés, 1918-1967, London, 1994, vol. IV, p. 149, no. 1344 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Rome, Galleria dell'Obelisco, Magritte, January 1953, no. 18.
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