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Materials:
oil on canvas
Size Notes:
15 x 11
Description:
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Markings:
signedmagritte(lower right); titled Scheherazade anddated1950(on the reverse); dedicated Stphy Langui amicalement Ren Magritte 1954(on the stretcher)
Exhibited:
Brussels, Galerie Dietrich et Lou Cosyn,Exposition Magritte, 1951, no. 21; Verviers, Cave desTemps Mls,Exposition: Magritte,1953, no. 9; Lige, Galerie du Carr, Ren Magritte,1953, no. 9; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts,Ren Magritte,1954, no. 83; Knokke, Casino Communal, XVe festival belge d't: L'Oeuvre deRen Magritte,1962, no. 78; Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Tricentenaire de la ville de Charleroi: peintres et sculpteurs, 1966, no. 76; Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuingen and Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Ren Magritte: Het mysterie van de werkelijkheid, 1967, no. 56 (Rotterdam); no. 49 (Stockholm); Paris, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Magritte,2003, p. 166, illustrated in color; Vienna,Kunstforumand Basel, Fondation Beyeler,Rene?? Magritte: der Schlu?ssel der Tra?ume, 2005, no. 60, p. 128, illustrated in color; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Ren Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, 2006-07, p. 120, illustrated in color; Milan,Palazzo Reale, Magritte: Il mistero della natura,2008-09, p. 156, illustrated incolor; MuseMagritte, Brussels(on loan 2009-14); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Ren Magritte: The Fifth Season, 2018, pl. 45, illustrated in color; Madrid, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museo Nacional,La Mquina Magritte, 2021-22, no. 58, p. 43, illustrated in color
Literature:
Patrick Waldberg, Ren Magritte,Brussels, 1965, p. 100, illustrated in color; Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn; David Sylvester, ed., Rene Magritte: Catalogue Raisonn, vol. III, London,1993, no. 729, p. 160, illustrated; Siegfried Gohr, Magritte: Attempting the Impossible, New York, 2009, p. 209, illustrated in color
Provenance:
Stphy and Emile Langui, Belgium (acquired as a gift from the artist in 1954 and until the 1990s); Galerie Cazeau-Braudire, Paris; Acquired from the above in the early 2000sby the present owner