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RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
Portrait de Madeleine Goris
signed 'Magritte' (lower left)
gouache on paper
7 x 9 3/4 in. (17.8 x 24.8 cm.)
Executed in November 1953
Provenance
Baron Jan-Albert Goris, Antwerp & New York, by whom commissioned directly from the artist, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
Letter from Magritte to Jan Albert Goris, 6 November 1953.
Letter from Magritte to Jan Albert Goris, 9 December 1953.
H. Torczyner, René Magritte signes et images, Paris, 1977, no. 405, p. 259 (illustrated p. 194; titled 'Madeleine' and dated '1960').
D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte Catalogue Raisonné, vol. IV, Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Collés, 1918-1967, Antwerp, 1994, no. 1368, p. 162 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Dallas, Museum for Contemporary Arts, René Magritte in America, December 1960 - January 1961, no. 71, n.p. (titled 'Portrait of the Quatuor'); this exhibition later travelled to Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, February 1961.
New York, Albert Landry Galleries, René Magritte in New York Private Collections, October - November 1961, no. 42, n.p. (titled 'Le Quatuor' and dated '1956').
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