Sale 6318
London
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29 June 2000
Price realised
GBP 17,625
Estimate
René Magritte (1898-1967) Paysage - la distance focale signed 'Magritte' (lower right) gouache on paper laid down on card 6¾ x 5¾in. (17.3 x 14.7cm.) Executed circa 1947
Provenance
Willy van Hove, Brussels. Marcel Mariën, Brussels. Leo Dohmen, Antwerp. Jan Torfs, Malines, by whom acquired by the above in 1971.
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Literature
D. Sylvester (ed.), René Magritte catalogue rainsonné, Vol. V, London 1997, no. 1244a (illustrated p. 66).
Exhibited
Brussels, Galerie Lou Cosyn, Exposition Magritte, May-June 1947 [possibly].
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