拍品專文
In a letter dated 22 September 1937 Magritte told Edward James, "I have just finished the picture with the big nose and am very interested by the result achieved: the atmosphere in the picture is quite new, and seems much more effective than the idea, which is nevertheless mentally disturbing, since the big nose is out of proportion, set as it is against the sea, rather like our body when, on suddenly waking up in the night, we sometimes experience the sensation of being immense or reduced to the size of a speck of dust" (D. Sylvester, op. cit., p. 252).
This painting was brought to London for the one-man show at the London Gallery in April 1938 and was sold before the exhibition opened to Roland Penrose. Penrose, the painter and writer friend of Picasso, Ernst and Miró, introduced Surrealism to the English public by organising the International Surrealist Exhibition in London in 1936. It remained in his collection until the early 1960s when Penrose sold the painting to Erica Brausen of the Hanover Gallery.
This painting has been requested for an exhibition of works by René Magritte at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts from 27 June to 27 October 1996 and at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, from 23 November 1996 to 2 March 1997.
This painting was brought to London for the one-man show at the London Gallery in April 1938 and was sold before the exhibition opened to Roland Penrose. Penrose, the painter and writer friend of Picasso, Ernst and Miró, introduced Surrealism to the English public by organising the International Surrealist Exhibition in London in 1936. It remained in his collection until the early 1960s when Penrose sold the painting to Erica Brausen of the Hanover Gallery.
This painting has been requested for an exhibition of works by René Magritte at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts from 27 June to 27 October 1996 and at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, from 23 November 1996 to 2 March 1997.