Timeless Nature: Property from a Private New York Collection
René Magritte
Le Paysage en feu
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November 19, 02:32 AM GMT
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1,800,000 - 2,500,000 USD
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Timeless Nature: Property from a Private New York Collection
René Magritte
(1898 - 1967)
Le Paysage en feu
signed Magritte (upper left); titled (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
21 ⅜ by 28 ⅞ in.
54.2 by 73.3 cm.
Executed in 1928.
(probably) Camille Goemans, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)
Paul Éluard, Paris (probably acquired from the above in 1929)
Gala Dalí, Paris (acquired from the above)
Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 15 December 1958 (consigned by the above)
(possibly) Yotis Skinas Gallery, Milan
Iolas Gallery, New York (acquired by 1960)
Byron Gallery, New York (acquired by 1968)
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1969)
Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner
Paris, Galerie Beaux-Arts, Exposition internationale du surréalisme, 1938, no. 105
Dallas, Museum of Contemporary Art and Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, René Magritte in America, 1960-61, no. 76
New York, Byron Gallery, René Magritte, 1968, no. 8a (dated 1935)
Southampton, Parrish Art Museum, René Magritte: Poetic Images, 1979, no. 3
David Sylvester, Magritte: The Silence of the World, 1992, p. 162, illustrated in color
Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn; David Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, Oil Paintings, 1916-1930, vol. I, London, 1992, no. 234, p. 284, illustrated
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