René Magritte

La malédiction

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Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 EUR

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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE CZECH COLLECTION

René Magritte

1898 - 1967

La malédiction

signed Magritte (lower right)

oil on panel

12,6 x 12,6 cm; 5 x 5 in.

Executed in 1937.

Roland Penrose, London (probably acquired directly from the artist)

Private Collection, Czech Republic (a gift from the above)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Letter from Roland Penrose to E.L.T. Mesens, 23 August 1937

David Sylvester and Sarah Whitfield, René Magritte: Catalogue raisonné, Oil Paintings and Objects, 1931-1948, vol. II, Londres, 1993, no. 442, p. 248, illustrated

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