MASTERWORKS FROM A DISTINGUISHED EUROPEAN COLLECTION
René Magritte (1898-1967)

Le changement des couleurs

Price realised GBP 482,500
Estimate
GBP 400,000 – GBP 600,000
Estimates do not reflect the final hammer price and do not include buyer's premium, and applicable taxes or artist's resale right. Please see Section D of the Conditions of Sale for full details.
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René Magritte (1898-1967)

Le changement des couleurs

Price realised GBP 482,500
Closed: 4 Feb 2015
Price realised GBP 482,500
Closed: 4 Feb 2015
Details
René Magritte (1898-1967)
Le changement des couleurs
signed 'Magritte' (upper right); titled, numbered and inscribed 'LE CHANGEMENT DES COULEURS (III) 6P' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
16 3/4 x 11 in. (42.5 x 28 cm.)
Painted in 1928
Provenance
Marcel Mariën, Brussels.
Private collection, Brussels (acquired at auction in Brussels in 1949), and thence by descent; sale, Sotheby's, Paris, 4 December 2013, lot 1 (€673,500).
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
D. Sylvester & S. Whitfield, René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné, vol. I, Oil Paintings, 1916-1930, Antwerp, 1992, no. 265, p. 305 (illustrated).
Exhibited
On loan to the Musée Magritte, Brussels, since 2014.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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