René Magritte

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 GBP

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Description

René Magritte
LES NOUVELLES ANNÉES
signed Magritte (upper right); titled on the reverse
gouache on paper
50 by 62cm.
19 5/8 by 24 3/8 in.

Provenance

Gilbert Sénécaut, Antwerp (probably acquired from the artist)
Leo Dohmen, Antwerp (acquired from the above)
Renée Lachowsky, Brussels (acquired by 1967)
Jacques Massart, Brussels (1991)
Ronny Van de Velde, Antwerp
Private Collection, Belgium (acquired from the above)
Acquired by the present owner in 1997

Exhibited

Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, René Magritte: het mysterie van de werkelijkheid / la mystère de la réalité, 1967, no. 98
Verona, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Da Magritte a Magritte, 1991, no. 72, illustrated in colour in the catalogue (as dating from 1950)
Knokke, Casino, Magritte, 2001, no. 21, illustrated in colour in the catalogue

Literature

Marcel Mariën (ed.), La Terre n'est pas une vallée de larmes, Brussels, 1945, illustrated after p. 40
David Sylvester (ed.), Sarah Whitfield & Michael Raeburn, René Magritte. Catalogue Raisonné. Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Collés 1918-1967, London, 1994, vol. IV, no. 1177, illustrated p. 53
Robert Hughes, The Portable Magritte, New York, 2002, illustrated in colour p. 216