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Property from a Private French Collection

RENÉ MAGRITTE | LA BELLE LURETTE

Auction Closed

October 29, 01:50 AM GMT

Estimate

1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private French Collection

RENÉ MAGRITTE

1898 - 1967

LA BELLE LURETTE 


Signed Magritte (lower left)

Oil on canvas

13 by 16⅛ in.

33 by 41 cm

Painted in 1965. 

Private Collection, Belgium (acquired from the artist and sold: Sotheby’s, London, November 12, 1970, lot 72)

H.R. Chancellor (acquired at the above sale)

Christian Fayt Art Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium

Private Collection, Belgium (acquired from the above circa 1979)

Galerie Haas, Zurich

Acquired from the above in 2015

Patrick Waldberg, Magritte, Peintures, Paris, 1983, illustrated in color p. 67

David Sylvester, Sarah Whitfield & Michael Raeburn, eds., René Magritte, Catalogue RaisonnéOil Paintings, Objects and Bronzes 1949-1967, vol. III, London, 1993, no. 1023, illustrated p. 418