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RENE MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
La voix du sang
signed ‘Magritte’ (lower right)
oil on canvas
31 1/8 x 23 1/8 in. (79.1 x 58.6 cm.)
Painted in 1948
Provenance
Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York (acquired from the artist, 8 August 1949).
Adelaide de Menil, Houston (acquired from the above, 1 January 1955); sale, Christie's, New York, 11 November 1997, lot 167.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Literature
L. Scutenaire, Magritte, Antwerp, 1948, p. 13 (illustrated, pl. 20).
P. Demarne, Rhétorique, September 1961, no. 3 (illustrated).
D. Sylvester, Magritte, New York, 1969, p. 8.
C. Moser, "Magritte's Show is One Step Beyond Surrealism” in Houston Chronicle, 3 October 1976.
D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte Catalogue Raisonné, Oil Paintings, Objects and Bronzes, 1931-1948, London, 1993, vol. II, p. 419, no. 668 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Hugo Gallery, René Magritte May 1948, no. 21.
(possibly) Brussels, Galerie Lou Cosyn, Les tableaux parlants de René Magritte February-March 1949.
The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, Facetten van hedendaagse schilderkunst: België, Luxembourg, Nederland, June-August 1949, no. 66 (illustrated).
New York, Hugo Gallery, Magritte, March-April 1951, no. 5 (illustrated on the cover).
Dallas, Museum for Contemporary Arts and Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, René Magritte in America, December 1960-February 1961, no. 24 (illustrated).
New York, Albert Landry Galleries, René Magritte in New York Private Collections, October-November 1961, no. 50.
Little Rock, Arkansas Art Center, Magritte, May-June 1964 (illustrated; detail illustrated on the cover).
Houston, Rice University, Institute for the Arts, Secret Affinities: Words and Images by René Magritte October 1976-January 1977, p. 26.
Maine, Portland Art Museum; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; New Orleans Museum of Art and Seattle Art Museum, Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection, October 2015-May 2017, p. 134, no. 33 (illustrated in color, p. 315).
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