LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Oil on canvas

Measurements:

11.32 in. (28.75 cm.) (height) by 8.46 in. (21.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Signed m agritte (upper left); titled " Le Principe du plaisir," signed Magritte and dated 1937 (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

London, The London Gallery,. René Magritte, Surrealist Paintings and Objects , 1938, no. 40. . Worthing, Municipal Art Gallery,. Surrealists from the Edward James Collection , 1963, no. 32. . Brighton, Art Gallery,. Thirty Years of Surrealist Paintings from the Edward James Collection , 1967, no. 41. . Durham, Dunelm House,. Surrealist Festival , 1968, no. 12. . London, Tate Gallery,. Magritte , 1969, no. 55, illustrated in the catalogue . . London, Marlborough Fine Art,. Magritte, Retrospective Loan Exhibition , 1973, no. 33, illustrated in the catalogue . . Liverpool, Tate Liverpool & Vienna, Albertina, . The Pleasure Principle , 2011-12, n.n., illustrated in color in the catalogue. . New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Houston, The Menil Collection & Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, . Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938 , 2013-14, no. 124, illustrated in color in the catalogue

Literature:

Suzi Gablik,. Magritte , London, 1970, no. 141, illustrated in color n.p & on the cover. . Abraham M. Hammacher, . René Magritte , New York, 1973, illustrated p. 39. . Alain Robbe-Grilley & René Magritte, . La Belle captive , Brussels, 1975, illustrated p. 106. . . Rétrospective Magritte (exhibition catalogue), Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels & Musée national d'art moderne, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, 1978-79, illustrated pp. 30 & 50. . . Tages-Anzeiger , Zurich, February 10, 1979, illustrated in color on the cover . . Suzi Gablik, . Magritte , London, 1985, no. 178, illustrated in color p. 156. . Jacques Meuris, . Magritte , Paris, 1988, illustrated p. 205. . David Sylvester, . Magritte, The Silence of the World , New York, 1992, illustrated in color p. 244. . David Sylvester & Sarah Whitfield, eds.,. René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné , vol. II, London, 1993, no. 443, illustrated p. 249. . . A Surreal Life: Edward James 1907-1984 (exhibition catalogue), Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Brighton, 1998, illustrated p. 39. . Patrick Roegiers, . Magritte et la photographie , London, 2005, illustrated in color p. 108. . . Magritte tout en papier (exhibition catalogue), Musée Maillol, Paris, 2006, illustrated in color p. 118. . . René Magritte, l'impero delle luci (exhibition catalogue), Villa Olmo, Como, 2006, illustrated in color p. 36. . . Surreal Encounters: Collecting the Marvellous. Works from the Collections of Roland Penrose, Edward James, Gabrielle Keiller and Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch (exhibition catalogue), Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Kunsthalle, Hamburg & Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2016-17, illustrated in color p. 200

Provenance:

Edward James, United Kingdom (acquired from the artist . circa 1937). . Edward James Foundation, United Kingdom (acquired from the above. circa 1964 and sold: Sotheby's, London, June 28, 1978, lot 45). . Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired at the above sale). . Acquired from the above in 1979