Property from a Private Swiss Collection I Provenant d'une Collection Particulière Suisse
René Magritte
L'État de veille
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December 5, 01:10 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000,000 - 1,500,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Swiss Collection
René Magritte
1898 - 1967
L'État de veille
signed magritte (lower left); signed, dated and inscribed L'état de veille Magritte 1958 (on the reverse)
gouache on paper
19 x 25 cm; 7½ x 9⅞ in.
Executed in 1958.
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Provenant d'une Collection Particulière Suisse
René Magritte
1898 - 1967
L'État de veille
signé magritte (en bas à gauche); signé, daté et inscrit L'état de veille Magritte 1958 (au dos)
gouache sur paper
19 x 25 cm; 7½ x 9⅞ in.
Exécuté en 1958.
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York
Albert Landry Galleries, New York
Private collection, New York
Sotheby's New York, 11 May 1988, lot 173 (consigned by the above)
Private collection (acquired at the above sale)
Christie's London, 28 November 1989, lot 130
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
New York, Albert Landry Galleries, René Magritte in New York Private Collections, 1961, no. 47 (titled Les Fenêtres)
New York, Byron Gallery, René Magritte, 1968, no. 37, p. 87, illustrated (titled Les Fenêtres)
Statement of account sent with letter from Magritte to Iolas, 12 November 1958
Jacques Wergifosse, "Magritte: à la rencontre du plaisir," La Meuse, October 1986, p. 50, illustrated
David Sylvester, Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn, eds., René Magritte ,Catalogue Raisonné: Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Collés 1918-1967, vol. IV, London, 1994, no. 1446, p. 208, illustrated
