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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