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Property from a Swiss Private Collection

René Magritte

Le Voleur

Estimate

2,800,000 - 3,500,000 USD

Lot Details

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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