RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898 - 1967)

Lot 117
05.03.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1380176
Lot 117 | RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898 - 1967)
Valeur estimée
£ 1 600 000 – 2 400 000
RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898 - 1967)
La femme du maçon
signed 'Magritte' (lower left); inscribed 'LA FEMME DU MAÇON' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
13 ¾ x 16 3/8 in. (35.1 x 41.4 cm.)
Painted in 1958




Provenance

Alexander Iolas, Paris, by whom acquired directly from the artist.
Private Collection, by whom acquired from the above in the mid-1960s.
Galleria La Medusa, Rome.
Acquired from the above in 1971; sale, Christie's, London, 21 June 2012, lot 313.
Private Collection, Belgium, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Hauser & Wirth, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2018.



Literature

A. Breton, A. Chavée, P. Eluard, et al., 'Savoir et beauté, Numéro spécial consacré à Louis Scutenaire, L'oeuvre peint de René Magritte', in Savoir et beauté, La Louvière, 1961, p. 2418.
Le fait accompli, nos. 34-35, Brussels, April 1970 (illustrated).
J. Vovelle, Le Surréalisme en Belgique, Brussels, 1972, (illustrated p. 126).
D. Sylvester, S. Whitfield & M. Raeburn, eds., René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. III, Oil Paintings, Objects and Bronzes 1949-1967, London, 1993, no. 892, p. 302 (illustrated).
R. Hughes, The Portable Magritte, New York, 2002 (illustrated p. 345).



Exhibited

Rotterdam, West-Flandre Hainaut, December 1958 - January 1959.
Brussels, Musée d'Ixelles, Magritte, April - May 1959, no. 106.
Paris, Galerie Rive Droite, René Magritte, February - March 1960, no. 8.
Little Rock, Arkansas Art Center, Constant Companions, October 1964 - February 1965, no. 282.
Rome, Galleria La Medusa, Maestri Europei, 1971, no. 19 (illustrated).
New York, Davlyn Gallery, Magritte, November 1974 - January 1975, no. 10.
Cincinnati, Taft Museum, René Magritte, 1977.
Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Magritte, Metamorfosis, November 1998 - February 1999, no. 18, p. 179 (illustrated p. 93).
Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Dalí & Magritte: Two surrealist icons in dialogue, October 2019 - February 2020.
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