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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 1, 2017 | Christie's | London | The Art of the Surreal | 125 | $****** - ****** | Le triomphe du mois de mai |
Works on Paper
40.6 x 59.7 cm (16 x 23.5 in)
gouache on paper
signed 'Magritte' (lower left)
Private collection, a wedding gift from the artist in 1953; Sotheby's, London, 1 December 1976, lot 225.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 7 December 1983, no. 382.
Waddington Galleries, London, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston.
Robert Tobin, New York, by whom acquired from the above in April 1985, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Brussels, Galerie Dietrich, Magritte, November - December 1946, no. 14.
R. Magritte, Titres, 1946.
Exh. cat, René Magritte, New York, 1947, no. 38.
Letter from René Magritte to Alex Salkin, 2 January 1947.
Letter from René Magritte to Pierre Andrieu, 20 December 1947.
R. Magritte, 'Lettres à Paul Nougé', in Le Fait accompli, nos. 127-129, Brussels, 1974 (illustrated in situ at the Galerie Dietrich, 1946).
D. Sylvester, René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné, vol. IV, Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Collés 1918-1967, London, 1994, no. 1210, pp. 72-73 (illustrated p. 73).
↵↵signed 'Magritte' (lower left)↵gouache on paper↵16 x 23 1/2 in. (40.6 x 59.6 cm.)↵Executed in 1946
