
Property from a Swiss Private Collection
Le Voleur
Estimate
2,800,000 - 3,500,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Swiss Private Collection
René Magritte
1898 - 1967
Le Voleur
signed Magritte (upper right); signed again and titled (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
18 by 19 ⅝ in.
45.7 by 49.9 cm.
Executed in 1967.
(probably) Georges Visat, France (acquired directly from the artist)
Galerie André-François Petit, Paris (acquired in 1968)
Byron Gallery, New-York (acquired from the above in 1968)
Daniel Filipacchi, New York (acquired from the above)
Frank Ténot, Paris (acquired from the above and until at least 1976)
Galerie Retelet, Monaco
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Paris, Galerie André-François Petit, Obsessions et Visions, 1968, no. 30, n.p., illustrated
New York, Byron Gallery, René Magritte, 1968, no. 30, pp. 66-67, illustrated
New-York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, The Nesuhi Ertegun and Daniel Filipacchi Collections, 1999, no. 160, p. 223, illustrated in color
Aix-En-Provence, 21, Bis Mirabeau, Espace Culturel Départemental,
Surréalisme & Littérature,
2021, pp. 32-33, illustrated in color
Brussels, Magritte Museum (on loan)
René Passeron, René Magritte, La Septieme face du de collection, Milan, 1970, p. 23, illustrated in color
Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn; David Sylvester, ed., Rene Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. III, London, 1993, no. 1063, p. 444, illustrated
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