Live Auction 1506The Art of The Surreal
René Magritte (1898-1967)
Lot 118 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION

René Magritte (1898-1967)

Le calligraphe (The calligrapher)

Closed4 February 2014

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René Magritte (1898-1967)
Le calligraphe (The calligrapher)
signed 'Magritte' (lower right); titled (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
12 x 14 3/4 in. (30 x 40 cm.)
Painted in 1958

Edgard Goldmuntz, Antwerp.
Anne Alphond, a gift from the above.
Private collection, Brussels, by whom acquired circa 1987.
sale, Christie's, London, 25 June 2002, lot 42.

Specialist note

‘The act of painting is performed in order that poetry appears and not in order to reduce the world to a variety of its material aspects.
Poetry does not forget the mystery of the world: it is not just a means of evasion nor food for the imagination, it is presence of mind.’
(R. Magritte in Rhétorique, June 1963).