Madame Récamier (Primary Title)

René Magritte, Belgian, 1898 - 1967 (Artist)

1967
Belgian
bronze
Overall (entire installation): 67 1/4 × 90 × 40 in. (170.82 × 228.6 × 101.6 cm)
Overall (.a)(couch): 33 5/8 × 75 3/4 × 27 3/4 in. (85.41 × 192.41 × 70.49 cm)
Overall (.b)(coffin): 31 × 48 × 23 1/4 in. (78.74 × 121.92 × 59.06 cm)
Overall (.c)(foot stool): 3 3/4 × 18 3/4 × 9 3/8 in. (9.53 × 47.63 × 23.81 cm)
Overall (.d & .e)(bolsters): 4 1/4 × 24 1/2 × 5 1/4 in. (10.8 × 62.23 × 13.34 cm)
Overall (.f)(lamp): 64 1/4 × 14 3/8 in. (163.2 × 36.51 cm)
91.484a-f
Not on view
Edition 1 of 5
Signed on proper right front arm: "Magritte 1/5"
Gift of Sydney and Frances Lewis
Transformed Reality, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, February 18 – May 16, 1993

Special Loan, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, January 31, 1979 - 1987

Improbable Furniture, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, April 1977; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA, May 2 – July 10, 1977

Rene Magritte: Die acht Skulpturen (The Eight Sculptures), Gimpel and Hanover Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland, January 15 – February 19, 1972
(Gimpel & Hanover Gallery, Zurich). (Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York) by 1973; Purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Sydney and Frances Lewis, Richmond, Virginia in May of 1973; [1] Gift to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), Richmond, Virginia in November of 1991.

[1] Sale 3510, lot 128. Important 19th and 20th Century Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, May 4, 1973. New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., 1973.
©artist or artist’s estate

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