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MAGRITTE RENÉ (1898-1967).
The item was sold for 10 140 €
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MAGRITTE RENÉ (1898-1967).
Portrait of Irene Hamoir. About 1947-1948. Grease pencil, signed lower right| 15.6 x 10.5 cm.
This portrait, done in a classical vein, shows Irène HAMOIR, with half-length hair, looking from the front.
A central figure, along with her husband, of the surrealist movement in Belgium, Irène HAMOIR (1906-1994), poetess and novelist, served as a model for René Magritte several times.
She helped him on many occasions, especially during his "cow" period, where the artist exploited a deliberately coarse style to treat grotesque and fantastic figures. It was with her and her husband, Louis SCUTENAIRE (1905-1987), that Magritte fled Brussels during the war to take refuge in Carcassonne. On several occasions, Irène served as a model for the artist, whom she refers to half-heartedly in her novel Boulevard Jacqmain as "Gritto".
PROVENANCE Collection P. G. van Hecke, Sotheby's sale, Paris, 24 November 2010, no. 133.
EXHIBITIONS Ostend, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ensor, Spilliert, Permeke, Magritte, Delvaux, 5 October 1996-2 February 1997. - Paris, Musée Maillol, Magritte tout en papier, 8 March 2006-19 June 2006. - Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Here is Magritte, 2 September 2006-3 December 2006.
Portrait of Irene Hamoir. About 1947-1948. Grease pencil, signed lower right| 15.6 x 10.5 cm.
This portrait, done in a classical vein, shows Irène HAMOIR, with half-length hair, looking from the front.
A central figure, along with her husband, of the surrealist movement in Belgium, Irène HAMOIR (1906-1994), poetess and novelist, served as a model for René Magritte several times.
She helped him on many occasions, especially during his "cow" period, where the artist exploited a deliberately coarse style to treat grotesque and fantastic figures. It was with her and her husband, Louis SCUTENAIRE (1905-1987), that Magritte fled Brussels during the war to take refuge in Carcassonne. On several occasions, Irène served as a model for the artist, whom she refers to half-heartedly in her novel Boulevard Jacqmain as "Gritto".
PROVENANCE Collection P. G. van Hecke, Sotheby's sale, Paris, 24 November 2010, no. 133.
EXHIBITIONS Ostend, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ensor, Spilliert, Permeke, Magritte, Delvaux, 5 October 1996-2 February 1997. - Paris, Musée Maillol, Magritte tout en papier, 8 March 2006-19 June 2006. - Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Here is Magritte, 2 September 2006-3 December 2006.