René Magritte

PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED BELGIAN COLLECTION
RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
La voix du sang
signed 'Magritte' (lower left)
gouache on paper laid down on card
9 1/16 x 7 1/16 in (23 x 18 cm)
Executed in 1947
Walter Schwarzenberg Collection (Galerie Le Centaure), Brussels. | Thence by descent to the previous owner; their sale, S.A. Servarts N.V., Brussels, November 7, 1995, lot 168. | Private collection, Belgium (acquired at the above sale). | Thence by descent to the present owner. | Exhibited | (possibly) Brussels, Galerie Lou Cosyn, Exposition Magritte, May 31 - June 21, 1947. | Lokeren, Kunstgalerij de Vuyst, Le Centaure, November 20, 1981 - January 31, 1982, no. 81. | Literature | (possibly) J. Koening, 'Bruxelles,' in Artes, Antwerp, July - August 1946, no. 11-12, p. 37. | D. Sylvester (ed.), S. Whitfield & M. Raeburn, René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. IV, Gouaches, Temperas, Waterc