Modern Evening Auction
Modern Evening Auction
Timeless Nature: Property from a Private New York Collection
Les Grâces naturelles
Live auction begins on:
November 19, 12:00 AM GMT
Estimate
2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Timeless Nature: Property from a Private New York Collection
René Magritte
(1898 - 1967)
Les Grâces naturelles
inscribed Magritte, numbered 3/5 and stamped with the foundry mark Fonderia Artistica Gi · Bi · Esse Verona-Italy
bronze
Height: 41 ½ in.
105. 4 cm.
Conceived and cast in 1967.
Alexander Iolas, New York
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1973)
Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner
Pierre Rouve, "Space conquered," Art and Artists, London, August 1968, pp. 24-27, illustration of another cast
Robert Melville, "Changing the world," The Architectural Review, London, September 1968, no. 12, p. 209; p. 210, illustration of another cast
Alexander Iolas, Magritte: The 8 Sculptures, Paris, 1968, n.p., illustration in color of another cast
Exh. Cat., London, Hanover Gallery and Paris, Alexander Iolas, The 8 Sculptures of Magritte, 1968-69, n.p., illustration in color of another cast
Suzi Gablik, Magritte, Greenwich, 1970, no. 164, p. 179, illustration of another cast; p. 181
Exh. Cat., Houston, Institute for the Arts, Rice University, Secret Affinities: Words and Images by René Magritte, 1976-77, p. 28, illustration of another cast
Jacques Meurius, Magritte, Paris, 1988, no. 312, p. 199; p. 202, illustration of another cast
Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn; David Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. III, London, 1993, 1092, p. 464, illustration of another cast
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