René Magritte (1898-1967)

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René Magritte (1898-1967)

A personage

signed with initial lower left M, and with a letter by the artist to a friend on the reverse, pencil on paper
21 x 14 cm

Executed circa July 1944

Literature

R. Magritte, La Destination, un livre de lettres, Brussels 1979, p. 124 (text of the letter), p. 125 (ill.)

Lot Essay

The drawing is an illustration for Vathek by William Beckford for which Margritte planned to make twelve drawings (see letter to A.C. Hecke..)

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