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René Magritte

Lessines 1898 – 1967 Brussels

”La Malédiction”. 1963

Oil on canvas on cardboard. 16,1 × 21 cm (6 ⅜ × 8 ¼ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: René Magritte. ”La Malédiction”. 1963.

Estimate:

EUR 300,000

 

- 400,000

USD 316,000

 

- 421,000

Sold for:

609,600 EUR (incl. premium)

Auction Winter 2023

Selected Works, Thursday, 30.11.2023

Information

Oil on canvas on cardboard. 16,1 × 21 cm (6 ⅜ × 8 ¼ in.). Signed lower right: Magritte. Dedicated in black ballpoint pen on the reverse: Amicalement à Monsieur et Madame Amiel Najar René Magritte 1963. There too a label of the Mayor Gallery, London. Catalogue raisonné: Sylvester 975.

The work is auctioned on behalf of and for the benefit of a European charitable foundation.

Amiel E. Najar, Brussels (presumably acquired directly from the artist) / Private Collection, Berlin (acquired at the Mayor Gallery, London) / Private Collection, Europe (acquired 2015 at Grisebach, Berlin)

Patrick Waldberg: René Magritte. Suivi d’une bibliographie générale par André Blavier. Brussels, André de Rache, 1965, ill. p. 234 / Auction catalogue: London, Sotheby’s, 25.6.1996, cat. no. 199, w. ill. / Auction 240, Ausgewählte Werke. Berlin, Grisebach, 4.6.2015, cat. no. 37, w. ill.

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