Property from a Distinguished Private Swiss Collection
René Magritte
L'Horizon
Estimate
2,000,000 - 3,000,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished Private Swiss Collection
René Magritte
1898 - 1967
L'Horizon
signed Magritte (lower left); titled "L'HORIZON" and dated 1950 (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
45,7 x 35,2 cm; 18 x 13⅞ in.
Executed in 1950.
Hugo Gallery, New York (acquired directly from the artist on 1 June 1950)
Rex Evans Gallery, Los Angeles
Private collection
Christie’s, New York, 19 May 1982, lot 50
Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels
Private collection, Europe (acquired by 1989)
Galerie Retelet, Monaco (acquired by 2019)
Private collection
Galerie Retelet, Monaco
Acquired from the above by the present owner
New York, Hugo Gallery, Magritte, 1951, no. 14
Basel and Paris, Galerie Isy Brachot, Magritte (1898 - 1967), 1989, p. 34, p. 35, illustrated in colour and p. 67, illustrated
Brussels, Magritte Museum, 2023 (on extended loan)
David Sylvester, Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn, eds., René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné, Oil Paintings, Objects and Bronzes 1949-1967, vol. III, London, 1993, no. 727, p. 159, illustrated