René Magritte (1898-1967)

Le Chemin de Damas

細節

René Magritte (1898-1967)
Le Chemin de Damas
signed 'Magritte' (upper left) and titled 'Le Chemin de Damas' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
19½ x 28¾in. (50.2 X 73.2cm.)
Painted in 1966

來源

Alexander Iolas, Paris, 1967.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 5 December 1973, lot 95 (¨35,000).
Davlyn Gallery, New York, by whom acquired at the above sale and from whom purchased by the present owner.

出版

Letter from Magritte to Bosmans, 31 May 1966, in Magritte Bosmans, pp. 452-3.
Letter from Magritte to Bosmans, 17 July 1966, in Magritte Bosmans, p. 457.
Louis Scutenaire, [untitled text], in Paris Iolas, 1967.
S. Gablik, Magritte, London, 1970, no. 135 (illustrated p. 159).
D. Sylvester, René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné, Oil Paintings, Objects and Bronzes, 1949-1967, vol. III, London, 1994, no. 1042 (illustrated p. 431).

展覽

New York, Geneva, Milan and Paris, Galerie Iolas, Magritte, les images en soi, 1967.
New York, Davlyn Gallery, 1974, no. 19.

拍品專文

Le Chemin de Damas was probably completed in early July 1966, after Magritte returned from a month's holiday in Italy.

Magritte mentioned the idea behind the work in a letter of 31 May 1966 to André Bosmans (Fig. 2), "J'ai trouvé deux autres images où le vide (et non l'invisible) se trouve entre un chapeau et un costume" (see Sylvester, op.cit., p. 431). The other work was Le Pèlerin (Sylvester no. 1043). Both are self portraits.