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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 15, 2024 | Sotheby's | New York | Modern Evening Auction | 24 | $****** - ****** | La Main heureuse | |||
Nov 29, 1988 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist & Modern Paintings & Sculpture, Part 1 | 84 | $****** - ****** | La Main heureuse |
paintings
50.5 x 65.2 cm (19.88 x 25.67 in)
oil on canvas
signed Magritte (lower left); titled and dated 1953 (on the reverse)
Léontine Hoyez-Berger, Brussels (acquired as a gift from the artist by 1954 and until at least 1962)
Mr. and Mrs. N.P. Bosted, Brussels (acquired by 1965)
Private Collection, Europe
Sotheby"s, London, 29 November 1988, lot 84 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Liège, Galerie du Carré, René Magritte , 1953, no. 5
Brussels, La Sirène, Oeuvres Récentes de René Magritte , 1953, no. 6
La Louvière, Maison des Loisirs, René Magritte, 1954, no. 27
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, René Magritte, 1954, no. 90, p. 38
Musée d"Ixelles, Exposition René Magritte, 1955, no. 78
Charleroi, Salle de la Bourse, XXXme Salon du Cercle Artistique et Littéraire de Charleroi , 1956, no. 103, p. 19
Musée d"Ixelles, Magritte , 1959, no. 78
Liege, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Exposition Magritte , 1960, no. 50, p. 13
Casino Knokke, L"Oeuvre de René Magritte, XVe Festival Belge d"Eté, 1962, no. 77, illustrated and p. 47 (dated 1950)
Mons, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Hainaut Cinq, 1964, no. 16
Ostende, Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst, From Ensor to Delvaux, 1996-97, n.n., p. 320, illustrated in color and p. 391
Casino Knokke, Magritte , 2001, no. 40, p. 65, illustrated in color and p. 126
Paris, Centre Pompidou and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Magritte: La trahison des images , 2016-17, n.n., p. 50, illustrated in color and p. 222
A. Marc, "René Magritte à Liège," La Lanterne , Brussels, 22 September 1953, p. 4, illustrated
Patrick Waldberg, René Magritte, Brussels, 1965, n.n., p. 81, illustrated and p. 341
Harry Torczyner, Magritte, New York, 1977, no. 273, p. 144, illustrated and p. 268
Pere Gimferrer, Magritte , Paris, 1986, no. 82, n.p., illustrated
Jacques Meuris, Magritte, 1898-1967 , Cologne, 1993, no. 115C, pp. 114-15, illustrated in color
Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn; David Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. III, 1993, no. 794, pp. 31, 50 and p. 221, illustrated
René-Marie Jongen, René Magritte ou La Pensée Imagée de L"Invisible: Réflexions et recherches, Brussels, 1994, no. 9, illustrated, pp. 55-58 and p. 273
Patrick Roegiers, Magritte et la photographie , Amsterdam, 2005, fig. 177, p. 130, illustrated (in a photograph with the artist)
Jacques Meuris, Magritte, 1898-1967 , Cologne, 2007, n.n., pp. 114-15, illustrated in color
Siegfried Gohr, Magritte: Attempting the Impossible , New York, 2009, no. 100, pp. 62-63, illustrated in color
Alex Danchev, Magritte: A Life , New York and Toronto, 2020, p. 215, illustrated
Property from an Esteemed European Collection
René Magritte
1898 - 1967
La Main heureuse
signed Magritte (lower left); titled and dated 1953 (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
19 ⅞ by 25 ⅝ in.
50.5 by 65.2 cm.
Executed in 1953.
