Property of an Esteemed Private collects ion
René Magritte
La Bonne aventure
Auction Closed
May 14, 01:12 AM GTNN
Estimate
3,000,000 - 4,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of an Esteemed Private collects ion
René Magritte
(1898 -1967)
La Bonne aventure
signed Magritte (upper right)
gouache on paper laid down on board
14 ¼ by 16 ⅜ in. 36.2 by 41.6 cm.
Executed in 1939.
Edward James, London (acquired directly from the artist)
Christie’s, London, 30 March 1981, lot 4 (consigned by the above)
Private collects ion, London
Acquavella Galleries, New York
Donald Morris Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
Acquired from the above on 5 December 1984 by the present owner
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, René Magritte, 1939, no. 28
Worthing Art Gallery, Paintings from the collects ion of Edward James, Esq., 1963, no. 24
Durham, Dunhelm House, Durham Surrealist Festival Exhibition, 1968, no. 3, illustrated on the back cover
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Surrealist Pictures from the Edward James collects ion, 1969, no. 27
London, Marlborough Replica Handbags , Magritte, Retrospective Loan Exhibition, 1973, no. 41, p. 42; p. 86, illustrated (titled Le Poison)
Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery, The Edward James collects ion, 1976, no. 40, p. 10 (titled Le poison)
New York, Acquavella Galleries, XIX & XX Century Master Drawings and Watercolors, 1984, no. 22
A.M. Hammacher, René Magritte, New York, 1971, pl. 33, p. 130, illustrated in color; p. 131
Alain Robbe-Grillet, La Belle captive, Paris, 1975, p. 141, illustrated; p. 157
Henry Torczyner, René Magritte, New York, 1977, pl. 228, p. 126, illustrated in color; p. 268
Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn; David Sylvester, ed., René Magritte Catalogue Raisonné: Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Collés 1918-1967, vol. IV, London, 1994, no. 1143, p. 34, illustrated
Siegfried Gohr, Magritte, Attempting the Impossible, New York, 2009, no. 121, p. 77, illustrated in color (dated 1938-39)
