Live Auction 7953Impressionist/ModernWorks on Paper
René Magritte (1898-1967)
Lot 208 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION 

René Magritte (1898-1967)

Personnage éclatant de rire

Closed10 February 2011

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GBP 43,250

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René Magritte (1898-1967)
Personnage éclatant de rire
inscribed 'personnage éclatant de rire' (within the composition)
pen and India ink on paper
4 3/8 x 5 5/8 in. (11 x 14.4 cm.)
Executed circa 1929

P.G. van Hecke.
André de Rache.
John Armbruster, Brussels.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, by whom acquired from the above.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1980.

Specialist note

This drawing is sold with a photo-certificate from the Comité Magritte.