La leçon de musique

Details

Rene Magritte (1898-1967)
La leçon de musique
signed 'Magritte' (lower right)
black ball-point pen on paper
11 7/8 x 8¾ in. (30.3 x 22.2 cm.)
Drawn in 1964

Provenance

Galerie Iolas, New York.
Louise Ferrari, Houston.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 10 May 1989, lot 202.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

D. Sylvester, S. Whitfield and M. Raeburn, René Magritte,
Catalogue raisonné, London, 1994, vol. IV, p. 282 (referred to in note to no. 1580).

Lot Essay

Magritte first developed this image in a painting done in January 1963, titled La sonnette d'Achille (Achilles' Bell; location unknown). In addition to that painting and the present drawing, he produced in 1965 a gouache of the subject (Sylvester, no. 1580), as well as another pen and ink drawing, reportedly done for a poster for the Alternative Attuali 2 exhibition in L'Aquila, Haly in August-September 1965.

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