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René Magritte

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 EUR
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Description

  • René Magritte
  • Projet d'illustration pour la revue 'Music'
  • signé Magritte (en bas à droite)

  • collage de partition de musique et encre sur papier

  • 8,1 x 27,1 cm
  • 3 1/8 x 10 5/8 in.

Provenance

Brook Street Gallery, Londres
Galerie Motte, Genève
Acquis auprès du précédent par le propriétaire actuel

Exhibited

Scarborough, Scarborough Festival, 1967

Literature

David Sylvester (ed.), René Magritte. Catalogue raisonné, Londres, 1992, vol. I : Oil Paintings 1916-1930, fig. 88, reproduit p. 59
David Sylvester (ed.), René Magritte. Catalogue raisonné, Londres, 1997, vol. V : Supplement, no. X21, reproduit p. 88

Condition

Executed on white wove paper, not laid down. The sheet is fixed to the mount at various points (very probably by the artist). A close inspection reveals some scattered tiny faint spots of foxing and some tiny media marks, mostly in the back ground and towards the edges. There are two old glue stains along the edge of the largest collage section and two very faint flattened creases towards the upper right corner. Apart from some light time-staining, this work is in very good original condition.
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Catalogue Note

signed 'Magritte' (lower right), collage and ink on paper. Executed in 1926.

Cette œuvre est une illustration originale pour la revue Music, éditée par E. L. T. Mesens. Elle y a été reproduite dans le numéro d'octobre 1926 pour illustrer un article intitulé 'La musique au concert'.