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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 16, 2024 | Sotheby's | New York | Modern Day Auction | 367 | $****** - ****** | Very Good | L"Océan | ||
Jun 21, 2018 | Christie's | London | Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale | 354 | $****** - ****** | Very Good | L"Océan | ||
May 6, 2015 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale | 383 | $****** - ****** | Very Good | L"Océan |
paintings
50.5 x 65.7 cm (19.88 x 25.88 in)
oil on canvas
signed Magritte (lower right); titled and dated 1943 (on the reverse)
Galerie Lou Cosyn, Brussels
Brook Street Gallery, London
Malcolm and Robin McCorquodale, London (acquired from the above in 1978)
Sotheby"s, New York, 6 May 2015, lot 383 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, Dubai (acquired from the above)
Christie"s, New York, 21 June 2018, lot 354
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Brussels, Galerie Dietrich, René Magritte , 1944
Brussels, Galerie des Editions La Boétie, Surréalisme , 1946, no. 71
Société Royale des Beaux-Arts de Verviers, René Magritte , January - February 1947, no. 9
London, Grosvenor Gallery, Magritte , September - October 1961, no. 27
Turin, Galleria Galatea, Magritte , May - June 1962, no. 20
Milan, Galleria Falanga, Magritte , 1962, no. 19
London, Hayward Gallery, Dada and Surrealism Reviewed , January - March 1978, no. 16 R/S 13
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts and Paris, Musée national d"art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Rétrospective Magritte , October - December 1978, no. 129, illustrated
London, Hayward Gallery; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Houston, Menil Collection and Art Institute of Chicago; Magritte , May - August 1992, no. 87
Paul Nougé, René Magritte ou Les Images défendues , Brussels, 1943, p. 50, illustrated
Patrick Waldberg, René Magritte , Brussels, 1965, p. 181, illustrated
Exh. Cat., London, Magritte , 1969, p. 65, illustrated
Jose Vovelle, Le Surréalisme en Belgique , Brussels, 1972, p. 139, illustrated
David Sylvester and Sarah Whitfield, eds., René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné , Oil Paintings and Objects, 1931 - 1948 , vol. II, London, 1993, no. 528, p. 314, illustrated
Property of a Gentleman
René Magritte
1898 - 1967
L"Océan
signed Magritte (lower right); titled and dated 1943 (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
19 ⅞ by 25 ⅞ in.
50.5 by 65.5 cm.
Executed in 1943.
