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THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE BELGIAN COLLECTOR
RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
La voix du sang (Blood will tell)
Details
RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
La voix du sang (Blood will tell)
signed ‘Magritte’ (lower right); signed, dated and inscribed '"La Voix du Sang" Magritte 1947' (on the reverse)
gouache on paper laid down on card
7 x 5 in. (17.7 x 12.7 cm.)
Executed in 1947
La voix du sang (Blood will tell)
signed ‘Magritte’ (lower right); signed, dated and inscribed '"La Voix du Sang" Magritte 1947' (on the reverse)
gouache on paper laid down on card
7 x 5 in. (17.7 x 12.7 cm.)
Executed in 1947
Provenance
Mr van Hoof, Belgium, by whom acquired directly from the artist.
André Aerts, Belgium, a gift from the above.
Private collection, Belgium, and thence by descent; sale, Sotheby’s, London, 4 February 2010, lot 178.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
André Aerts, Belgium, a gift from the above.
Private collection, Belgium, and thence by descent; sale, Sotheby’s, London, 4 February 2010, lot 178.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
S. Whitfield, ed., René Magritte, Newly Discovered Works, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. VI, Brussels, 2012, no. 16, p. 32 (illustrated).
Exhibited
(Possibly) Brussels, Galerie Lou Cosyn, Exposition Magritte, May - June 1947.
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Michelle McMullan
Senior Specialist, Co-Head of Evening sale