Origins

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Auction Closed

February 8, 06:44 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

René Magritte

1898 - 1967


L'État de veille

signed Magritte (lower left); signed, titled and dated 1958 (on the verso)

gouache on paper

19 by 25 cm.

7 ½ by 9 ⅞ in.

Executed in 1958.

Alexander Iolas, Paris (acquired directly from the artist in late 1958) 

Robert Elkon Gallery, New York

Albert and Leni Landry, New York (acquired by 1961)

Sotheby's, New York, 11 May 1988, lot 173 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)

Christie's, London, 28 November 1989, lot 130

Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired at the above sale)

Sotheby’s, Paris, 5 December 2024, lot 110 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Statement of account sent with letter from René Magritte to Alexander Iolas, 12 November 1958

Jacques Wergifosse, "Magritte: à la rencontre du plaisir," La Meuse, October 1986, p. 50, illustrated

David Sylvester, Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn, eds., René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné: Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Collés 1918-1967, vol. IV, London, 1994, no. 1446, p. 208, illustrated

David Sylvester, Sarah Whitfield, Michael Raeburn and Lynette Cawthra, René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné: Supplement; Exhibitions Lists; Bibliography; Cumulative Index, vol. V, Antwerp, 1997, no. 1446, p. 72

New York, Albert Landry Galleries, René Magritte in New York Private Collections, 1961, no. 47 (titled Les Fenêtres)

New York, Byron Gallery, René Magritte, 1968, no. 37, p. 87, illustrated (titled Le Fenêtre and dated 1960)