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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 20, 2024 | Christie's | New York | 20th Century Evening Sale | 38A | $****** - ****** | Les chasseurs au bord de la nuit | |||
Feb 4, 2014 | Christie's | London | The Art of the Surreal | 114 | $****** - ****** | Les chasseurs au bord de la nuit (The hunters at the edge of night) |
paintings
81 x 115.9 cm (31.88 x 45.63 in)
oil on canvas
signed "Magritte" (lower right)
Galerie L"Epoque (P.G. van Hecke), Brussels (acquired from the artist, August 1928).
Galerie Le Centaure (P.G. van Hecke), Brussels (transferred from the above, 1929).
E.L.T. Mesens, Brussels (acquired at the liquidation of the above, 1932).
Claude Spaak, Brussels (by 1933, until at least June 1934).
E.L.T. Mesens, Brussels (by 1936).
William and Noma Copley, Chicago (acquired from the above, circa 1956-1957).
Prof. Alfred Neven DuMont, Cologne (acquired from the above, 19 October 1978); sale, Christie"s, London, 4 February 2014, lot 114.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Brussels, Salle Giso, E.L.T. Mesens & E. van Tonderen présentent seize tableaux de René Magritte , February 1931, p. 12, no. 12.
Brussels, Palais de Beaux-Arts, Exposition René Magritte , May-June 1933, no. 9.
Brussels, Palais de Beaux-Arts, Exposition Minotaure , May-June 1934 no. 70.
New York, Julien Levy Gallery, René Magritte , January 1938, no. 7.
Knokke-Heist, Casino Communal, Ve festival belge d"été, Expositions René Magritte, Paul Delvaux , August 1952, no. 6.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Dertien Belgische Schilders , October-November 1952, no. 57.
Brussels, Palais de Beaux-Arts, René Magritte , May-June 1954, p. 25, no. 21 (illustrated, p. 18).
Venice, Belgian Pavilion, XXVII Biennale di Venezia , June-October 1954, p. 261, no. 35.
Antwerp, Stedelijke Feestzaal-Meir, Kunst van Heden : Salon 1956 , October 1956, p. 11, no. 102.
Little Rock, Arkansas Art Center, Magritte , May-June 1964 (dated 1935).
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, René Magritte: Het Mysterie van de Werkelijkheid , August-September 1967, p. 74, no. 21 (illustrated in color, p. 75).
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, René Magritte , October-November 1967, p. 6, no. 15.
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Magritte , December 1977, no. 2.
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts and Paris, Musée national d"art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Rétrospective Magritte , October 1978-April 1979, no. 75 (illustrated).
Humlebaeck, Louisiana Museum, René Magritte , October 1983-January 1984, p. 49, no. 31.
London, The Hayward Gallery; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Houston, The Menil Collection and The Art Institute of Chicago, Magritte , May 1992-May 1993, no. 37 (illustrated in color).
Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, René Magritte: Les jours gigantesques , November 1996-March 1997, pp. 13 and 253, no. 3 (illustrated, p. 13, fig. 4).
Paris, Musée national d"art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, La r évolution surr éaliste , March-June 2002, pp. 186 and 437 (illustrated in color, p. 186).
Paris, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Magritte , February-June 2003, p. 76 (illustrated in color, p. 77).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938 , September 2013-January 2014, pp. 114 and 247 (illustrated in color, p. 114, pl. 53).
Letter from P. Nougé to R. Magritte in Lettres surr é alistes , April 1928, no. 145.
Postcard from R. Magritte to E.L.T. Mesens, 22 August 1928.
A. de Ridder, La jeune peinture belge: De l"Impressionnisme à l"Expressionnisme , Antwerp, 1928, p. 39 (illustrated).
P.G. van Hecke, "La peinture fantastique" in Variétés , vol. 1, no. 7, 15 November 1928, p. 365 (illustrated).
L. Scutenaire, Magritte , Chicago, 1958, no. 34.
P. Waldberg, René Magritte , Brussels, 1965, p. 128 (illustrated).
D. Sylvester, ed., Magritte , exh. cat., The Tate Gallery, London, 1969, p. 60 (illustrated).
A.M. Hammacher, René Magritte , London, 1974, p. 90 (illustrated in color, p. 91, pl. 13).
R. Calvocoressi, Magritte , Oxford, 1984, pp. 28 and 74 (illustrated, p. 75, pl. 22).
D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, Oil Paintings, 1916-1930 , London, 1992, vol. I, pp. 82 and 279-280, no. 228 (illustrated, p. 279).
D. Sylvester, J. Bouniort and M. Draguet, Magritte , Houston, 2009, p. 185 (illustrated in color).
S. Gohr, Magritte: Attempting the Impossible , Antwerp, 2009, p. 128, no. 188 (illustrated).
A. Danchev, Magritte: A Life , New York, 2020, pp. 187, 381 and 394 (illustrated, p. 186).
RENE MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
Les chasseurs au bord de la nuit
signed "Magritte" (lower right)
oil on canvas
31 7/8 x 45 5/8 in. (80.7 x 116 cm.)
Painted in 1928
