Live Auction 7703Impressionist/Modern Works on Paper
René Magritte (1898-1967)
Lot 150 PROPERTY FROM A MILANESE COLLECTION

René Magritte (1898-1967)

Music (Design for a page heading)

Closed5 February 2009

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René Magritte (1898-1967)
Music (Design for a page heading)
signed 'Magritte' (lower right)
brush and pen and India ink and collage on paper
3 1/8 x 10¾ in. (8 x 27.2 cm.)
Executed in 1926

(probably) Brook Street Gallery, London, by the mid-1970s.
Arte Centro SAS, Milan (no. 8026).

Specialist note

This is the original design for the heading for page six of the January 1927 issue of Music, a monthly review of dance and music edited by E.L.T. Mesens, and published between October 1926 and January 1927. According to Sylvester, the collage elements are taken from the piano score of The Girls of Gottenberg, a source frequently used by the artist in his papiers collés.