Contours of Modernity | A Private European Collection
René Magritte
L'Automate
Auction Closed
March 4, 09:10 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000,000 - 1,500,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
René Magritte
1898 - 1967
L'Automate
signed Magritte (upper right)
gouache on paper laid down on board
34.7 by 27 cm. 13⅝ by 10⅝ in.
Executed in 1962.
Lou Cosyn, Brussels (acquired from the artist in 1962)
Private Collection, Antwerp (acquired from the above in 1964)
Sotheby's, London, 22 June 2004, lot 485 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn; David Sylvester, ed., René Magritte. Catalogue Raisonné, Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Collés 1918-1967, vol. IV, Antwerp, 1994, no. 1501, p. 238, illustrated