After René Magritte - Editions & Works on Paper: Online Auction New York Wednesday, September 6, 2023 | Phillips

Create your first list.

Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.

  • “C'est le soir il est trop tard on ne voit plus clair
    Il est tard il est tout à fait tard” i
    —Louis Scutenaire

     

    i "It's evening it's too late we no longer see clearly / It's late it's quite late"

    • Catalogue Essay

      Including: Ma mère l'oye (My Mother the Goose); Pierreries (Jewels); La Belle captive (The Beautiful Captive); La Traversée difficile (The Difficult Crossing); Les Grands oiseaux sont ceux de l'île du trésor (The Big Birds Are Few of Treasure Island); Une jeune femme présente avec grace (A Young Woman Presents with Grace...); Une porte s'ouvre sur la nuit veloutée (A Door Opens on the Velvety Night); Un séduisant navire d'eau de mer (An Attractive Sea-Going Vessel); Les Claires-voies d'un jeune regard embaumant la fête d'un vieil arbre... (The Skylights of a Young Gaze Embalming the Feast of an Old Tree); Un bombardon libère son bouquet de flammes (A Bombard Releases Its Bouquet of Flames); Il y a sur le rivage de la mer deux pommes visiteuses (There are on the Shore of the Sea Two Visiting Apples); and Deux tourterelles, dans la chaude pénombre de leur maison... (Two Doves, in the Warm Half-Light of their House...).

76

Les Enfants trouvés (The Foundlings)

1968
The complete set of 12 lithographs in colors, on Rives BFK paper, with title page, colophon and justification, with text by Louis Scutenaire, all contained in the original red linen portfolio with a lithographed cover.
nine I. approx. 12 x 17 3/4 in. (30.5 x 45.1 cm)
three I. approx. 11 1/8 x 19 1/8 in. (28.3 x 48.6 cm)
all S. 17 1/2 x 23 1/2 in. (44.5 x 59.7 cm)
portfolio 18 1/4 x 24 3/8 x 1 1/8 in. (46.4 x 61.9 x 2.9 cm)

All signed with initials in pencil by Fernand Mourlot, numbered '75' (printed) on the justification (the edition was 350), published by Éditions A.C. Mazo & Cie., Paris, five framed.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
$6,000 - 8,000 

Sold for $5,715

Contact Specialist

Editions@phillips.com

212 940 1220

Editions & Works on Paper: Online Auction

6 - 13 September 2023