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A Visit with Magritte (Portfolio)

six silver prints on five sheets

signed and numbered 10/30 on the colophon. Six silver prints on five sheets, the images measuring 3.5 x 11 ins (8.89 x 27.94 cms) and 6.5 ins x 10 ins (16.51 x 25.4 cms), the sheets 11 x 14 ins (27.94 x 35.56 cms), each signed and numbered 10/30. Folio-sized gilt-stamped green cloth; contents loose as issued; ties. Published by Matrix Publications, Providence, Rhode Island

6.5 × 10 in (16.5 × 25.4 cm) (largest image)

Auction Estimate:$2,000 - $4,000

Sale date:March 11 - 25, 2025

Price Realized

$2,040

(including Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Swann Galleries, auction, New York, 19 October 2004, lot 310 Estate of Robert Noakes

Duane Michals, who enjoys creating narratives within his series of photographs, conveys in this portfolio a reflection on his visit with René Magritte in Brussels when he was thirty-five and Magritte sixty-five. This portfolio is a reflection on an experience profound to Michals, as he stated for Times: “Among my pantheon of myths, René Magritte casts the furthest shadow of illumination…He was very kind to me, giving me carte blanche to his treasures. I walked all the way back to New York from Belgium. My visit still lingers with the eyes of my portfolio.” These six silver prints depict René Magritte in a bowler hat, multiple exposures of René and Georgette Magritte, multiple exposures of René Magritte and his easel, a double image Terrarium, and a nude painting in the interior of Magritte's home.