LOT DETAILS

Materials:

brush and India ink and inkwash with white heightening on paper

Size Notes:

9 3?4 x 7 1?8 in. (24.7 x 18 cm.)

Description:

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Exhibited:

Bodley Gallery, New York, René Magritte: Contemporary Belgian Surrealist, April 1958. Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts and Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, René Magritte in America, December 1960-February 1961, no. 78. New York, Albert Landry Galleries, René Magritte in New York Private Collections, October-November 1961, no. 32. Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sweet Dreams and Nightmares: Dada and Surrealism from the Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection, March-May 2000, no. 10 (illustrated in color; dated 1957). New York, Pace/MacGill Gallery, The Long Arm of Coincidence: Selections from the Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection, April-May 2009 (illustrated in color; dated 1957). Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Magritte: La trahison des images, September 2016-June 2017, p. 28 (illustrated in color; dated 1957).

Literature:

La Carte d'après nature, no. 8, January 1955 (illustrated). D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Collés, 1918-1967, New York, 1994, vol. IV, pp. 164-165, no. 1373 (illustrated).

Provenance:

Bodley Gallery, New York (acquired from the artist). Acquired from the above by the late owners, April 1958.