LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

28.74 in. (73.00 cm.) (height) by 21.34 in. (54.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'Magritte' (upper right); inscribed ' "LE PALAIS DE RIDEAUX" (II) ' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

Chicago, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, René Magritte, March - April 1964, no. 10. Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections, December 1984 - January 1985, pp. 63 & 66 (illustrated fig. 3). Yamaguchi, Prefectural Museum of Art, René Magritte, April - May 1988, no. 28, pp. 65 & 196 (illustrated p. 65); this exhibition later travelled to Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, May - July 1988. Tokyo, Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Rétrospective Magritte, December 1994 - January 1995, no. 14 (illustrated pp. 80-81); this exhibition later travelled to Hyogo, Museum of Modern Art, January - April 1995; and Fukuoka, City Museum, April - May 1995. Brussels, Muse´es royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, René Magritte, 1898-1967, March - June 1998, no. 71, p. 99 (illustrated). Liverpool, Tate, René Magritte: The Pleasure Principle, June - October 2011, p. 32 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Vienna, Albertina, November 2011 - February 2012. New York, Di Donna, Moon Dancers: Yup’ik Masks and the Surrealists, April - June 2018, pp. 106 & 151-152 (illustrated p. 107).

Literature:

D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné, vol. I, Oil Paintings, 1916-1930, London, 1992, no. 267, p. 307 (illustrated). R. Hughes et. al., Magritte en poche, Paris, 2009, p. 427 (illustrated p. 90).

Provenance:

Galerie L’Epoque [Paul Gustave Van Hecke], Brussels, by whom acquired in 1928. E.L.T. Mesens, Brussels, by whom probably acquired from the above, circa 1932-1933. Harold Diamond, New York, by whom acquired from the above, circa 1959-1960. Mr & Mrs Kenneth Newberger, Chicago, by whom acquired from the above, in the early 1960s. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, a gift from the above in the 1980s. Marianne Holtermann, London, by whom acquired from the above. Galerie Beyeler, Basel (no. 10865), by whom acquired from the above, in July 1986. David Tunkl, Los Angeles, by whom acquired from the above, in April 1988. Chalk and Vermilion Fine Art, Greenwich, Connecticut. Private collection, Greenwich, Connecticut, by 1998. Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s, London, 23 June 2003, lot 34. Private collection, by whom acquired at the above sale; sale, Sotheby’s, London, 6 February 2008, lot 383. Acquired at the above sale.