RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)

Lot 108
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Lot 108 | RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
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RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)

L'ami intime

signed ‘Magritte’ (lower left)

oil on canvas

28 5⁄8 x 25 ½ in. (72.6 x 64.9 cm.)

Painted in January - February 1958





Provenance

Galerie Alexander Iolas, Paris & New York, by whom acquired directly from the artist in December 1958.

Mario Tazzoli, Turin, by 1965.

Max Wasserman, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, by 1969.

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 26 March 1980, lot 61.

Georges Marci, Switzerland, by whom acquired at the above sale.

Gilbert & Lena Kaplan, New York, by whom acquired from the above in 1980.



Literature

Letter from René Magritte to Maurice Rapin, 17 January 1958.

Letter from René Magritte to André Bosmans, 19 May 1959.

P. Waldberg, René Magritte, Brussels, 1965, pp. 264 & 352 (illustrated p. 264).

I. Clurman, Surrealism and the Painting of Matta and Magritte, Stanford, 1970, p. 16.

J. Milo, Vie et survie du 'Centaure', Brussels, 1980, p. 229.

D. Sylvester, ed., S. Whitfield & M. Raeburn, René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. III, Oil Paintings, Objects and Bronzes, 1949-1967, London, 1993, no. 865, pp. 279 & 280 (illustrated p. 279).

D. Sylvester, Magritte, Brussels, 2009, p. 14 (illustrated).

S. Gohr, Magritte: Attempting the Impossible, Paris, 2009, no. 377, p. 277 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Brussels, Galerie Europe, Art actuel: Peintres belges contemporains: 1er salon, March - April 1958, no. 20.

New York, Alexander Iolas Gallery, René Magritte, 1959.

Little Rock, Arkansas Art Center, Magritte, May - June 1964.

Paris, Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Magritte: Le sens propre, November - December 1964, no. 9.

Cologne, Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, René Magritte: mit Bilden und Gouachen, January - March 1965 (illustrated).

London, Tate Gallery, René Magritte, February - April 1969, no. 84, pp. 123 & 133 (illustrated p. 123).

Hanover, Kestner Gesellschaft, René Magritte, May - June 1969, no. 62, p. 75 (illustrated p. 131); this exhibition later travelled to Zurich, Kunsthaus, June - July 1969.

London, The Hayward Gallery, The South Bank Centre, Magritte, May - August 1992, no. 116 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, September - November 1992.

Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Magritte, March - June 1998, no. 195, p. 194 (illustrated).
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