Title:
Golconde
Style: Surrealism (ca. 1910-1940s)
Medium: Prints, Lithograph, twenty-color
Year: 1953
Print/Casting Year: ie. circa 1973
Size: height - 12.99 in, width - 18.77 in, depth - 0 in
Markings: signed, Bearing the lithographic signature of Rene Magritte on the lower right, signed in pencil by Mourlot and numbered in pencil on the lower left with the embossed seals of the Estate of Rene Magritte and Atelier Mourlot
Edition: 750
Foundry/Publisher: Mourlot
Estimate: from $2,000 to $3,000
Seller's Description:
Painted in 1953, "Golconde" was acquired by the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas in 1996.
The title "Golconde" was found by Magritte's friend, Louis Scutenaire. Golconda (in French, "Golconde"), is a ruined city in southeast India, which from the mid-fourteenth century til the end of the seventeenth century was the capital of two successive kingdoms; it became legendary as the center of the region's diamond industry, and it's name is a synonym for "mine of wealth".
The great Surrealist painter Rene Magritte continues to delight and intrigue collectors today with his delicious blend of the mysterious and the mundane. He was always interested in dreams as the inspiration for much of his imagery. Magritte has said of his work, "Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well...."
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