Inscription
lower right: Magritte; across top reverse: Le Blanc Seing / 1965
Provenance
(Galérie Alexandre Iolas, Paris); sold 1966 to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; gift 1985 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1965
- René Magritte, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; Art Institute of Chicago; Pasadena Art Museum; University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, 1965-1966, no. 82, repro.
- 1979
- 19th and 20th Century French Painting from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1979 (long term exhibition), checklist no. 46.
- 1986
- Gifts to the Nation: Selected Acquisitions from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1986, unnumbered checklist, repro.
- 1987
- René Magritte, Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne, 1987, no. 118, repro.
- 1987
- René Magritte, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, 1987-1988, no. 129, repro.
- 1992
- Magritte, The Hayward Gallery, London; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Menil Collection, Houston; Art Institute of Chicago, 1992-1993, no. 125, repro., as Le blanc-seing or Carte blanche.
- 1996
- René Magritte, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 1996-1997, no. 136, repro., as Carte Blanche [Montreal catalogue], and no. 103, repro., as Le blanc-seing (Die Blankovollmacht) [Düsseldorf catalogue].
- 1998
- René Magritte 1898-1967, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, 1998, no. 229, repro.
- 2002
- René Magritte, The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo; Nagoya City Art Museum; Hiroshima Museum of Art, 2002, no. 69, repro.
- 2003
- Magritte, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2003, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
- 2005
- René Magritte. The Key to Dreams (René Magritte. Der Schlüssel der Träume), Kunstforum Wien, Vienna; Fondation Beyeler, Basel, 2005, no. 96, repro.
- 2009
- Visual Deception, Nagoya City Art Museum; The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, 2009, no. 105, repro.
- 2010
- El mundo invisible de René Magritte [The Invisible World of René Magritte], Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, 2010, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
- 2014
- Visual Deception, II: into the Future, The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe; Nagoya City Art Museum, 2014-2015, no. 70, repro.
- 2015
- René Magritte: The Search for the Absolute, The National Art Center, Tokyo; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, 2015, no. 123, repro.
- 2016
- Magritte, la trahison des images, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2016-2017, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
- 2018
- Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2018-2019.
- 2021
La Máquina Magritte, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid; Fundación "la Caixa," Barcelona, Barcelona, 2021 - 2022, no. 74, repro.
Bibliography
- 1989
- Strick, Jeremy. Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture: Selections for the Tenth Anniversary of the East Building. Washington, D.C., 1989: 102, repro. 103.
- 1998
- Gilbert, Rita. Living with Art. 5th ed. New York, 1998: fig. 9.
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