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Materials:

gouache on paper laid down on board

Size Notes:

7 x 5

Description:

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Markings:

signed Magritte (lower left)

Exhibited:

Dallas, The Dallas Museum of Contemporary Arts & Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Ren Magritte in America, 1960-61, no. 41

Literature:

Letter from Magritte to Alexander Iolas, 12 October 1952; Letter from Jan-Albert Goris to Magritte, 22 December 1952; David Sylvester, ed., Sarah Whitfield, & Michael Raeburn, Ren Magritte Catalogue Raisonn. Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Colls 1918-1967,vol. IV, London, 1994, no. 1329, p. 141, illustrated (erroneously described as lost)

Provenance:

Alexander Iolas, New York; Jean and Dominique de Menil, Houston (acquired from the above); Marie-Christophe de Menil and Robert Thurman (a gift from the above by 1960); A gift fromthe above in 1974to the present owner