RENÉ MAGRITTE (1896-1967)

Lot 108
05.03.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1380166
Lot 108 | RENÉ MAGRITTE (1896-1967)
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£ 6 000 000 – 9 000 000
RENÉ MAGRITTE (1896-1967)
La reconnaissance infinie
signed 'Magritte' (lower left); signed, inscribed and dated '"LA RECONNAISSANCE INFINIE", MAGRITTE 1933' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
39 3/8 x 27 5/8 in. (100 x 70.2 cm.)
Painted in 1933




Provenance

Claude Spaak, Brussels, by whom acquired directly from the artist by May 1934.
Private collection, by whom acquired circa 1955.
Private collection, Europe, by whom acquired circa 1965; sale, Christie's, London, 25 June 2001, lot 44.
Anonymous sale, Christie’s, London, 22 June 2004, lot 36.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

H. Read, Surrealism, London, 1936 (illustrated pl. 48).
A. Breton, Le Surréalisme et la peinture, Paris, 1965, p. 271 (illustrated).
'Interview between Magritte and John Randel', in Magritte Ecrits, Paris, 1965, p. 610.
M. Butor, 'Magritte et les mots', in Les lettres françaises, Paris, 13 November 1968, p. 8.
S. Whitfield, ed., Magritte, exh. cat., London, 1992 (illustrated fig. 9, p. 33).
D. Sylvester & S. Whitfield, eds., René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné, vol. II, Oil Paintings and Objects, 1931-1948, London, 1993, no. 353, p. 186 (illustrated).
A. Danchev, Magritte, A Life, New York, 2020, pp. 274 & 276 (illustrated p. 275).



Exhibited

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Minotaure, May - June 1934, no. 68.
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, René Magritte: peintures, objets surréalistes, April - May 1936, no. 30.
Paris, Galerie d'Art L'Œil, Minotaure, May - June 1962, no. 31 (illustrated).
Tokyo, The National Art Center, René Magritte, March - June 2015, no. 41, p. 130 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Kyoto, Municipal Museum of Art, July - October 2015.
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