Le masque vide, 1928
René Magritte
Information
Artist
René Magritte
1898
Lessines, Hennegau, Belgien
1967
Brüssel, Belgien
Work data
Material/Technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Image: 73,3 × 92,3 × 1,5 cm
Frame: 93,3 × 112,5 × 10 cm
Signature
Bez. u.l.: "Magritte"; verso: "'LE MASQUE VIDE' (II)"
Accession Number
0193
Catalogue Raisonné
Sylvester 296
Acquisition year
1973
Provenance
After its creation in 1928, the painting “Le masque vide” by René Magritte became part of the collection of Galerie Le Centaure, which was run by Walter Schwarzenberg. When the gallery had to close in 1931, E.L.T. Mesens purchased around 150 works by Magritte, including this painting, from the collection. The work remained in Mesen’s collection until at least 1947; from 1954 it can be found in the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York. From the late 1960s until its acquisition by the Kunstsammlung, the work is located at Garick Fine Art, presumably on consignment from a private collection. The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen purchased the painting “Le masque vide” from Roberts for its holdings in 1973.
Credit line
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Exhibitions
- L'art en Belgique. Flandre et Wallonie au XXe siècle. Un point de vue, 5.12.1990-9.3.1991, Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris
- Magritte, 19.6.-26.10.1996, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montreal
- Renè Magritte, 18.11.1998-6.2.1999, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona
- Unser 20. Jahrhundert - Meisterwerke von Picasso bis Beuys, 14.7.-28.10.2000, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
- La Révolution surréaliste/Surrealismus 1919-1944. Dalí, Max Ernst, Magritte, Miró, Picasso ..., 19.7.-23.11.2002, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
- La Révolution surréaliste/Surrealismus 1919-1944. Dalí, Max Ernst, Magritte, Miró, Picasso ..., 5.3.-23.6.2002, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
- René Magritte - Die Kunst der Konversation, 22.11.1996-1.3.1997, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
- Silent Revolution - Eine neue Sammlungspräsentation, 26.2.-12.6.2010, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K21 Ständehaus, Düsseldorf
- Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938, 27.9.2013-11.10.2014, The Museum of Modern Art, New York/The Menil Collection, Houston/The Art Institute, Chicago
- Fresh Widow. Fenster-Bilder seit Matisse und Duchamp/Fresh Widow. The Window in Art since Matisse and Duchamp, 30.3.-11.8.2012, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, K20 Grabbeplatz
- Magritte. La trahison des images/Magritte. Der Verrat der Bilder, 20.9.2016-4.6.2017, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Galerie 2, Paris/Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
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