Lot Essay
To be sold with a certificate of authenticity from the Comité Magritte, 2003.
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L'Aiguillon - Envy
Details
René Magritte (1898-1967)
L'Aiguillon - Envy
signed 'Magritte' (lower left), and numbered '411' (lower right)
pencil on paper
27 x 21.5 cm.
Executed circa 1945.
L'Aiguillon - Envy
signed 'Magritte' (lower left), and numbered '411' (lower right)
pencil on paper
27 x 21.5 cm.
Executed circa 1945.
Provenance
Waddington Gallery, London.
Literature
Marcel Mariën, L'activité surrealiste en Belgique (1924-1950), Brussels 1979, P. 334 (ill.)
Exhibited
London, Annely Juda Fine Art, 1945: The end of the war, 28 June - 16 September 1995, no.37.
Paris, Galerie Denise René, '1945: La Fin de la Guerre', 26 September - 4 November 1995, no.37 (ill.)
Düsseldorf, Galerie Hans Mayer, 1945: The end of the war 11 November - 20 December 1995.
Paris, Galerie Denise René, '1945: La Fin de la Guerre', 26 September - 4 November 1995, no.37 (ill.)
Düsseldorf, Galerie Hans Mayer, 1945: The end of the war 11 November - 20 December 1995.
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