Property from the Collection of Sandra Moss
RENÉ MAGRITTE | RÊVERIE DE MONSIEUR JAMES
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October 29, 01:50 AM GMT
Estimate
5,000,000 - 7,000,000 USD
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Property from the Collection of Sandra Moss
RENÉ MAGRITTE
1898 - 1967
RÊVERIE DE MONSIEUR JAMES
Signed Magritte (lower right); signed Magritte, titled and dated 1943 (on the reverse)
Oil on canvas
21⅜ by 29 in.
54.3 by 73.7 cm
Painted in 1943.
Lou Cosyn, Brussels (acquired from the artist)
Private Collection
Sale: Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, Mar🌞ch 31, 1982, lot 2ꦦ88
Davyln Gallery, New York (acqu🧔ire♊d at the above sale)
Acquired from the above circa 1984
Rob M., “René Magritte” in Le Nouveau journal, Brussels, January 7, 1941, p. 2
Letter from Magritte ❀to Edward J⛎ames, January 22, 1941
Letter from Magritte to Edward James, January🌃 6, 1949
Marcel Mariën, Magritte, Brussels, 1943, illustrated in color pl. 9
La Destinationat, Lettres à Marcel Marien, 1937-1962, Brussels,🍸 1977, letters nos. 46 & 47; postcard no. 157
Lettres à André Bosmans: 1958-1967, Paris, 1990, pp. 17-18
David Sylvester & Sarah Whitfield, eds., René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné, vol. II, Londo🎐n, 1993, no. 517, illustrated p. 306
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