RENE MAGRITTE (1898-1967)

Dessin pour la couverture de London Gallery Bulletin, no. 1

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RENE MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
Dessin pour la couverture de London Gallery Bulletin, no. 1
signed 'Magritte' (center right) and inscribed '(Le clicheur peut agrandir le dessin s'il y a lieu)' (lower right)
pen and India ink on paper
10 x 6 1/8 in. (25.4 x 15.4 cm.)
Drawn in April 1938

E.L.T. Mesens, Brussels (gift from the artist).
George Melly, London.
Andrée Melly, London (gift from the above).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 3 February 2004, lot 80.
Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York (acquired at the above sale).
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 2005.

The London Gallery, London Gallery Bulletin, April 1938, no. 1 (illustrated on the cover).
D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, Oil Paintings and Objects, 1931-1948, New York, 1993, vol. II, p. 61 (cover illustrated, fig. 52).
S. Whitfield, ed., Magritte: Newly Discovered Works, Catalogue Raisonné, Oil Paintings, Gouaches, Drawings, Brussels, 2012, vol. VI, p. 88, no. 59 (illustrated in color).

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