RENE MAGRITTE (1898-1967)

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RENE MAGRITTE (1898-1967)

Le coeur dévoilé (Portrait de Tita Thirifays)

signed top right Magritte--oil on canvas
31½ x 25¼ in. (80 x 64 cm.)

Painted in 1936
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. André Thirifays, Brussels
Brook Street Gallery, London; sale, Sotheby & Co., London, July 4, 1973, lot 104 (illustrated in color)
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, London, Dec. 2, 1982, lot 445
Exhibited
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Les Compagnons de l'Art, Exposition d'Art Belge Contemporain, June-Aug., 1938, no. 279
Knokke-le-Zoute, Le Casino, L'Oeuvre de René Magritte, July-Aug., 1962, no. 52

Lot Essay

David Sylvester will include this painting in his forthcoming René Magritte catalogue raisonné vol. II as no. 412