Le Sens propre

signed Magritte (lower left)

8¾ by 11¾ in.

22.1 by 29.7 cm.

Harry Torczyner, New York (commissioned from the artist in 1963)

Private Collection, New York (by descent from the above)

Christie's New York, 19 November 1998, lot 515 (consigned by the above)

Galerie Christine et Isy Brachot, Brussels (acquired at the above sale)

Private Collection, Belgium (acquired by 2002)

Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above in 2018)

Christie's Paris, 21 October 2020, lot 3 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Montreal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Magritte, 1996, no. 33, illustrated in color p. 118

Postcard from Magritte to Harry Torczyner, 18 June 1963, in Harry Torczyner, L'Ami Magritte, Correspondance et souvenirs, Anvers, 1992, no. 279, p. 248

Postcard from Magritte to Harry Torczyner, 24 June 1963, in Harry Torczyner, L'Ami Magritte, Correspondance et souvenirs, Anvers, 1992, no. 280, p. 248

Harry Torczyner, René Magritte, Ideas and Images, New York, 1977, no. 271, pp. 142-43, illustrated

H. van Nieuwenhove, "Le domaine enchanté de Harry Torczyner," Style, no. 9, December 1992, illustrated in color p. 27

Harry Torczyner, L'Ami Magritte, Correspondance et souvenirs, Anvers, 1992, no. 8, pp. 26 & 248, illustrated in color

René Magritte, Magritte/Torczyner, Letters Between Friends, New York, 1994, illustrated p. 85

Sarah Whitfield & Michael Raeburn; David Sylvester, ed., René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné, Antwerp, 1994, vol. IV, no. 1531, illustrated p. 255