Modern and Contemporary Evening Auction, featuring Face to Face: A Celebration of Portraiture
Modern and Contemporary Evening Auction, featuring Face to Face: A Celebration of Portraiture
Property from an Important American Private Collection
René Magritte
Le savoir
Auction Closed
June 27, 06:01 PM GMT
Estimate
1,600,000 - 2,600,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important American Private Collection
René Magritte
1898 - 1967
Le savoir
signed Magritte (lower right); signed Magritte and titled (on the verso)
gouache on paper
34.9 by 26.7 cm. 13 ¾ by 10 ½ in.
Executed circa 1961.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Comité Magritte.
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重要美國私人收藏
雷內・馬格利特
1898 - 1967 年
《知識》
款識：藝術家簽名Magritte（右下）；簽名並書題目（背面）
水粉紙本
34.9 x 26.7 公分；13¾ x 10½ 英寸
約1961年作
Private Collection, Arizona (acquired by descent from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Letter from René Magritte to Edward D. Mayer, 13 March 1961
René Magritte, “Le rappel à l’ordre,” Rhétorique, no. 1, May 1961
David Sylvester, ed., René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné, Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Collés 1918-1967, vol. IV, London, 1994, app. 180, p. 333
The work is accompanied by a group of seven postcards and greeting cards, as well as five letters from the artist to Edward D. Mayer, one with an accompanying English translation. All are signed by the artist and dated between 1961-66.
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