RENÉ MAGRITTE | LE TRAITÉ DES SENSATIONS

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October 29, 01:50 AM GMT

Estimate

1,500,000 - 2,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private American Collection

RENÉ MAGRITTE

1898 - 1967

LE TRAITÉ DES SENSATIONS

Signed Magritte (lower left); signed Magritte, titled and dated 1944 (on the reverse)

Oil on canvas

32 by 25¾ in.

81.3 by 65.5 cm

Painted in 1944.

Please note that this work has been requested for the upcoming exhibition "Magritte en plein soleil. La période “Renoir” 1940-1947" to be held at the Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris from February 9 - June 21, 2021.

Gaston Puel, Paris (acquired by 1964)

Galleria Notizie, Turin

R. Morone, Turin (acquired by 1965)

Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above circa 1967)

Private Collection, Switzerland (by descent from the above and sold: Christie's, New York, November 9, 2000, lot 264)

Acquired at the above sale

Letter from Magritte to Mariën, September 1943

Letter from Magritte to Mariën, November 1943

Postcard from Magritte to Mariën, March 22, 1944

Letter from Magritte to Mariën, (?) June 22, 1944

Letter from Magritte to Mariën, (?) June 27, 1944

Postcard from Magritte to Mariën, July 7, 1944

D'Arcy Agency, Milan, October 1964-January 1965, illustrated in color on the cover

Suzi Gablik, Magritte, London, 1970, no. 127, illustrated p. 146

Marcel Mariën, Le Radeau de la mémoire: Souvenirs déterminés, Paris, 1983, p. 98

Suzi Gablik, Magritte, New York, 1991, no. 127, illustrated p. 148

David Sylvester, Magritte, Anvers, 1992, illustrated in color p. 330

David Sylvester, Magritte, The Silence of the World, New York, 1992, illustrated in color p. 262

David Sylvester & Sarah Whitfield, René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, London, 1993, no. 562, illustrated p. 339