RENÉ MAGRITTE ( 1898 – 1967)
Le coup de grâce, 1947
Oil on canvas
40.3 x 30.2 cm (15 ¼ x 11 ½ in.)
Provenance
- Marguerite and Howard Cullman, New York (acquired directly from the artist in Brussels in 1958).
- Private collection ( by descent)
- Sale, Phillips New York, 15 November 2022, lot 13
- Private collection
Literature
- Marcel Mariën, ed., "Le Garde-Fou," 1950, published in Le Fait accompli, no. 76, December 1972, n.p.
- David Sylvester, ed., René Magritte Catalogue Raisonné, III: Oil Paintings, Objects and Bronzes 1949-1967, London, 1993, app. no. 124, pp. 12, 474.
- Kathleen Rooney and Eric Plattner, eds., René Magritte: Selected Writings, Minneapolis, 2016, pp. 114-115.