René Magritte

Le tricheur

Artist's Resale Right

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Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 EUR

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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION

René Magritte

1898 - 1967

Le tricheur

signed René Magritte, dated 14-2-1945, and inscribed à Jacques Wergifosse (lower right)

gouache and watercolour on paper laid on cardboard

41,8 x 31,4 cm; 16½ x 12⅜ in.

Executed on February 4th, 1945.

Jacques Wergifosse, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)

Sotheby's, London, 1 December 1993, lot 240 (consigned by the above)

Galerie Boulakia, Paris

Private Collection, Italy (acquired from the above in 1994)

Thence by descent to the present owners

David Sylvester, Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn, eds., René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné: Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Collés 1918-1967, vol. IV, London, 1994, no. 1190a, p. 60, illustrated

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