Object Details
Artist
René Magritte, Belgian, b. Lessines, 1898–1967
Provenance
William Rubin, New York, to 1 July 1963
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 1 July 1963-17 May 1966
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Exhibition History
LOUISIANA MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, Humlebæk, Denmark. "Magritte," 6 August-28 November 1999. Tour: SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART, Edinburgh, October-March 2000; SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, 5 May-12 September.
FOUNDATION RENE MAGRITTE, Brussels. "Magritte, La Storia Centrale." Tour: MUSEU DEL RISORGIMENTO, Rome, 16 March-8 July 2001.
ROYAL MUSEUMS OF FINE ARTS, Belgium. "René Magritte." Tour: BUNKAMURA MUSEUM OF ART, Tokyo, 6 July-25 August 2002; NAGOYA CITY ART MUSEUM, 1 September-20 October; HIROSHIMA MUSEUM OF ART, 26 October-8 December.
GALERIE NATIONALE DU JEU DE PAUME, Paris. "René Magritte," 11 February-9 June 2003.
KUNSTFORUM WIEN, Vienna. "René Magritte," 6 April-24 July 2005. Tour: FONDATION BEYELER, Basel, Switzerland, 7 August-27 November.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Ways of Seeing: John Baldessari Explores the Collection," 26 July 2006-23 September 2007, no cat.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Strange Bodies," 11 December 2008-15 November 2009, no cat.
TATE LIVERPOOL. "René Magritte: The Pleasure Principle," 1 July-16 October 2011, color ill. p. 209; p. 270. Tour: ALBERTINA, Vienna, 9 November-26 February 2012.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Marvelous Objects: Surrealist Sculpture from Paris to New York," 29 October 2015-15 February 2016, p. 186.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Manifesto: Art x Agency," 15 June 2019-31 January 2020.
Published References
FORGEY, BENJAMIN. "The New Hirshhorn Museum," ArtNews 73, no. 8 (October 1974), ill. p. 42.
HINE, HANK. The Shape of Dreams: Five Centuries of Painted Dreams from Divine, Mythology, and the Mind (St. Petersburg, FL: The Dali Museum, 2022), fig. 35 (color), p. 130.
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Date
1948
Accession Number
66.3199
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
39 1/8 × 32 1/8 in. (99.2 × 81.5 cm)
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection
School
Surrealism (European)
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Link to Original Record
Record ID
hmsg_66.3199