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Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

50 x 40

Description:

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Markings:

signed 'Magritte'

Exhibited:

Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, Dix matres contemporains, June-August 1968, no. 45 (illustrated).Hanover, Kestner Gesellschaft and Kunsthaus Zrich, Ren Magritte, May-July 1969, no. 72.Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, L'ternel surralisme (hommage discret  E.L.T. Mesens), October-December 1970, no. 41.Knokke, Galerie Isy Brachot, Magritte, March-April 1971, no. 8.Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, Delvaux, Gnoli, Magritte, November-December 1974, no. 47.Paris and Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, Magritte, January-May 1979, no. 29.Milan, Galleria del Milione, Ren Magritte: Il buon senso e il senso delle cose, May 1984, no. 18 (illustrated in color; dated 1964).

Literature:

Letter from R. Magritte to A. Bosmans, 28 March 1962.Letter from R. Magritte to H. Torczyner, 3 October 1963.H. Michaux, En rvant  partir de peintures nigmatiques" in Mercure de France

Provenance:

(probably) Ren Grain, Brussels.Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels (probably acquired from the above, 1968). Private collection, Europe (acquired from the above, 1980).Di Donna Galleries, New York (acquired from the above, 2019).Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2019.