PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
René Magritte
Ceci est un morceau de fromage
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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
René Magritte
1898 - 1967
Ceci est un morceau de fromage
signed Magritte, dated 1936, and titled "Ceci est un morceau de fromage" twice (on the reverse)
oil on canvas board in the artist's gilded wooden frame
14 x 18 cm; 5½ x 7⅛ in.
16 x 20,5 cm; 6¼ x 8⅛ in. (framed)
Executed in 1936.
Charles Ratton, Paris (acquired in May 1936 and until the early 1980s)
Private Collection, Venice (acquired from the above before 1986)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Paris, Charles Ratton, Exposition surréaliste d'objets, 1936
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Le surréalisme: sources, histoire, affinités, 1964, no. 189, n.p.
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Métamorphose de l'objet: Art et anti-art 1910-1970, 1971-1972, no. 67, p. 150, illustrated p. 86 without the dome
Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti, René Magritte, 1986, no. 13
Letter from René Magritte to André Breton, 19 March 1936
David Sylvester and Sarah Whitfield, René Magritte: Catalogue raisonné, Oil Paintings and Objects, 1931-1948, vol. II, London, 1993, no. 682, p. 431, illustrated without the dome