Property from a Private European Collection
RENÉ MAGRITTE | L'OVATION
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October 29, 01:50 AM GMT
Estimate
12,000,000 - 18,000,000 USD
Lot Details
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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
Knokke, Casino Communal, XVe festival belge d'été: L'Oeuvre de René Magritte, 1962, no. 104
Milan, Galleria Schwarz, Magritte, 1962, n.n.
Rome, L'Attico, Magritte, 1963, n.n.
(probably) Geneva, Galerie Alexander Iolas, Magritte, 1963, n.n.
Paris, Galerie Alexander Iolas & New York, Iolas Gallery, Magritte: le sens propre, 1964, no. 16
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
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