RENE MAGRITTE (1898-1967)

Details

RENE MAGRITTE (1898-1967)

Etude (recto); Rue de village (verso)

pencil on paper
19½ x 12¾in. (49.5 x 32.4cm.)

Provenance

Georgette Berger (Mme René Magritte), Brussels; sale, Sotheby's, London, July 2, 1987, lot 813 (acquired by the present owner)

Literature

H. Torczyner, Magritte, Ideas and Images, New York, 1977, no. 362 (illustrated, p. 174)

Lot Essay

The nude study on the recto of the present drawing is related to the female figure which appears first in La magie noire, 1934 (ed. D. Sylvester, René Magritte Catalogue raisonné, London, 1993, vol. II, no. 355), and in numerous variants throughout the 1940s.