Lot Essay
This drawing is sold with a photo-certificate from the Comité Magritte.
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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
René Magritte (1898-1967)
Personnage éclatant de rire
Details
René Magritte (1898-1967)
Personnage éclatant de rire
inscribed 'personnage éclatant de rire' (within the composition)
pen and India ink on paper
4 3/8 x 5 5/8 in. (11 x 14.4 cm.)
Executed circa 1929
Personnage éclatant de rire
inscribed 'personnage éclatant de rire' (within the composition)
pen and India ink on paper
4 3/8 x 5 5/8 in. (11 x 14.4 cm.)
Executed circa 1929
Provenance
P.G. van Hecke.
André de Rache.
John Armbruster, Brussels.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, by whom acquired from the above.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1980.
André de Rache.
John Armbruster, Brussels.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, by whom acquired from the above.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1980.
Literature
P.G. van Hecke (ed.), Variétés, no. 8, 15 December 1929 (illustrated p. 603).
J. Marcel, Histoire de la peinture surréaliste, Paris, 1959, p. 375 (illustrated p. 181).
J. Marcel, Histoire de la peinture surréaliste, Paris, 1959, p. 375 (illustrated p. 181).
Exhibited
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Lettres et chiffres, March - May 1980, no. 53.