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Untitled (Shell in the form of an ear)
Details
René Magritte (1898-1976)
Untitled (Shell in the form of an ear)
signed 'magritte' (lower left)
gouache on paper
7 3/8 x 9 5/8in. (18.7 x 24.4cm.)
Executed in 1956
Untitled (Shell in the form of an ear)
signed 'magritte' (lower left)
gouache on paper
7 3/8 x 9 5/8in. (18.7 x 24.4cm.)
Executed in 1956
Provenance
Acquired by the present owner in Brussels in the late 1960s.
Literature
Letter from Magritte to Dors and Rapin, 31 January 1956.
D. Sylvester (ed.), René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné, vol. IV, Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Collés, 1918-1967, Antwerp, 1994, no. 1398 (illustrated p. 178).
D. Sylvester (ed.), René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné, vol. IV, Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Collés, 1918-1967, Antwerp, 1994, no. 1398 (illustrated p. 178).
Exhibited
Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, Rétrospective Magritte (1898-1967) dans les collections privées, Jan.-March 1988 (illustrated in the catalogue p. 191).
Special notice
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