Property of a Gentleman
René Magritte
Le Printemps éternel
Auction Closed
March 7, 03:05 PM GMT
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Gentleman
René Magritte
1898 - 1967
Le Printemps éternel
signed Magritte (lower right)
gouache and pencil on paper
34.7 by 51.1 cm. 13 ½ by 19 ½ in.
Framed: 54 by 72 cm. 21 ¼ by 28 ⅜ in.
Executed in 1937-38.
Private Collection, Kuwait
Waddington Galleries, London (acquired in 1981)
Acquired from the above in July 2004 by the present owner
London, London Gallery, René Magritte: Surrealist Paintings and Objects, 1938, no. 46
Letter from Magritte to Mesens, March 1938
Louis Scutenaire, Avec Magritte, Brussels, 1977, p. 91
David Sylvester, Magritte, London, 1992, p. 261, illustrated in colour
David Sylvester, ed., René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné, Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and papiers collés, 1918-1967, vol. IV, London, 1994, no. 1133, p. 28, illustrated