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Materials:

gouache on paper

Size Notes:

14 x 17 7?8 in. (35.6 x 44.5 cm.)

Description:

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Exhibited:

Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts and Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, René Magritte in America, December 1960-February 1961, no. 77 (titled L'Age du Dialectique). New York, Albert Landry Galleries, René Magritte in New York Private Collections, October-November 1961, no. 31 (titled L'Age du Dialectique). Little Rock, Arkansas Art Center, Magritte, May-June 1964. Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sweet Dreams and Nightmares: Dada and Surrealism from the Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection, March-May 2000, no. 9 (illustrated in color). Fukui Fine Arts Museum; Okazakai City Museum; Saitama Modern Art Museum; Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art and Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Man Ray: I Am an Enigma, June 2004-March 2005. New York, Pace/MacGill Gallery, The Long Arm of Coincidence: Selections from the Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection, April-May 2009, p. 3 (illustrated in color, pl. 9).

Literature:

Letter from R. Magritte to A. Iolas, 8 January 1948. Letter from R. Magritte to A. Iolas, 24 January 1948. Letter from R. Magritte to A. Iolas, 8 November 1948. H. Torczyner, Magritte: Ideas and Images, New York, 1977, p. 133, no. 246 (illustrated). D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Collés, 1918-1967, New York, 1994, vol. IV, p. 116, no. 1285 (illustrated).

Provenance:

Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Paris (acquired from the artist, November 1948). William and Noma Copley, Longpont (acquired from the above). Gift from the above to Rosalind Gersten as a birthday present, 1955.