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THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTOR
RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
La veillée (The Vigil)
Details
RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
La veillée (The Vigil)
signed 'Magritte' (lower left)
collage with gouache, watercolour and Conté crayon on paper
13 ½ x 16 ¾ in. (34.3 x 42.6 cm.)
Executed in 1961
La veillée (The Vigil)
signed 'Magritte' (lower left)
collage with gouache, watercolour and Conté crayon on paper
13 ½ x 16 ¾ in. (34.3 x 42.6 cm.)
Executed in 1961
Provenance
Private collection, Brussels, by whom acquired directly from the artist circa 1961.
Private collection, Europe, by whom acquired from the above circa 2006; sale, Christie’s, London, 23 June 2010, lot 58.
Acquired at the above sale, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Private collection, Europe, by whom acquired from the above circa 2006; sale, Christie’s, London, 23 June 2010, lot 58.
Acquired at the above sale, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
D. Sylvester, René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné, vol. IV, Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Collés 1918-1967, Antwerp, 1994, no. 1635, p. 311 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Ostend, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Kunstbezit in ieders bereik, June - July 1961, no. 44.
Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 41e Salon [du] Cercle Royal Artistique et Littéraire de Charleroi, including an ‘Hommage à René Magritte’, February 1968, no. 134.
Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, Rétrospective Magritte dans les collections privées, January - March 1988, p. 208 (illustrated p. 209).
Lausanne, Fondation de l’Hermitage, Au fil des collections, de Tiepolo à Degas, January - May 2012, no. 68, no. 197 (illustrated p. 184).
Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 41e Salon [du] Cercle Royal Artistique et Littéraire de Charleroi, including an ‘Hommage à René Magritte’, February 1968, no. 134.
Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, Rétrospective Magritte dans les collections privées, January - March 1988, p. 208 (illustrated p. 209).
Lausanne, Fondation de l’Hermitage, Au fil des collections, de Tiepolo à Degas, January - May 2012, no. 68, no. 197 (illustrated p. 184).
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