Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
Property from a Private European Collection
RENÉ MAGRITTE | L'OVATION
Auction Closed
October 29, 01:50 AM GMT
Estimate
12,000,000 - 18,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private European Collection
RENÉ MAGRITTE
1898 - 1967
L'OVATION
Signed Magritte (upper left); dated 1962, titled and inscribed 116/89 (on the reverse)
Oil on canvas
35 by 45⅝ in.
89 by 116 cm
Painted in 1962.
Alexander Iolas, New York (acquired from the artist in 1962)
Jean & Dominique de Menil, Houston (acquired from the above in 1965)
Alexander Iolas, New York (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above on January 15, 1985
54 64: Painting and Sculpture of a Decade (exhibition catalogue), Tate Gallery, London, 1964, illustrated n.p.
Metro International Directory of Contemporary Art 1964, Milan, 1964, illustrated p. 218
René Magiritte, André Bosmans & Francine Perceval, Lettres à André Bosmans: 1958-1967, Paris, 1990, pp. 238-39 & 241-43
David Sylvester, ed., Sarah Whitfield & Michael Raeburn,
René Magritte. Catalogue Raisonné, Oil Paintings, Objects and Bronzes 1949-1967, vol. III, London, 1993, no. 943, illustrated p. 358