Artist:
Rene Magritte
Artwork:
La Recherche De La Verite
Size:
27 x 35 cm
Medium:
Gouache on paper
Creation year:
1963
Marks:
Signed Magritte (lower left); titled (on the verso)
Category:
Drawings
Artwork details :
Executed in 1962-63
Provenance:
Margaret Krebs, Brussels; Mr. & Mrs. Elkiner, Brussels (acquired by 1994); Private Collection (by descent from the previous); Acquired from the previous
Exhibition history:
Hamburg, Kunstverein und Kunsthaus; Rome, Gallerie Nazionale dell’Arte Moderna & Brussels, Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Rene Magritte und der Surrealismus in Belgien, 1982, nos. 161, 170 & 189, illustrated in the catalogue; Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Rene Magritte, 1988, no. 143, illustrated in color in the catalogue & on the cover; Paris, Fondation Dina Vierny & Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Magritte Tout en Papier, 2006, illustrated in color in the catalogue; Tokyo, The National Art Center & Kyoto, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Rene Magritte, 2015, no. 115, illustrated in color in the catalogue; Brussels, Musee Magritte, 2009-16 (on loan)
Sotheby's New York
Date:
2019-11-12
Lot Number:
34
Low Estimate:
$1500000
High Estimate:
$2000000
Hammer Price:
Not Sold