René Magritte (1898-1967), Les vases communicants (Communicating vessels)

René Magritte (1898-1967)
Les vases communicants (Communicating vessels)
signed ?Magritte? (lower right); signed ?Magritte René MAGRITTE?, dated '1946? and titled (on the reverse)
gouache on paper
14 1/8 x 19½ in. (35.8 x 49.6 cm.)
Executed in 1946

Provenance

Alex Salkin, Brussels.
Iolas Gallery, New York.
Sidney Janis, New York, by whom possibly acquired from the above.
Private collection, New York; sale, Sotheby?s, New York, 27 May 1976, lot 266.
Nicholas Tooth, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Christian Fayt, Knokke-Heist, by whom acquired from the above.
Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, by whom acquired from the above.
Christian Fayt, Knokke-Heist, by whom acquired back from the above.
Sala Dalmau, Barcelona, by 1979.
Private collection, Barcelona, by whom acquired from the above; sale, Christie?s, London, The Art of the Surreal, 7 February 2005, lot 77.
Private collection, Europe; sale, Christie?s, London, The Art of the Surreal, 4 February 2014, lot 120.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR