RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967) L’invitation au voyage signed ‘Magritte’ (lower right) oil on canvas 60.5 x 80 cm. (23 ¾ x 31 ½ in.) Painted in April 1944
RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967) L’invitation au voyage signed ‘Magritte’ (lower right) oil on canvas 60.5 x 80 cm. (23 ¾ x 31 ½ in.) Painted in April 1944
Galerie Lou Cosyn, Brussels Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s, London, 16 April 1975, lot 45 Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s, London, 4 July 1979, lot 125 Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Letter from Magritte to Marcel Mariën, early April 1944. Letter from Magritte to Marcel Mariën, 14 April 1944. Letter from Magritte to Marcel Mariën, April 1944. Letter from Magritte to Marcel Mariën, 12 July 1944. R. Magritte, Dix tableaux de Magritte précédés de descriptions, Brussels, 1946. R. Magritte, La Destination, lettres à Marcel Mariën, Brussels, 1977, nos. 84, 86, 87 & 113. D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, Oil Paintings and Objects, 1931-1948, London, 1993, no. 558, p. 335 (illustrated).
Verviers, Société Royal des Beaux-Arts, René Magritte, January – February 1947, no. 16.
