René Magritte’s ‘superstar of surrealism’ to go on sale in Paris | René Magritte
A painting of Surrealist artist René Magritte in a special collection for more than 90 years will be available later on this month.
La Magie Noire was purchased by Magritte’s philanthropists and financially struggling for two years by Magritte’s philanthropists, Suzanne Spaak, the hero of Magritte’s philanthropists.
Spaak was shot by Gestapo in Paris because he helped Jewish children security.
Sotheby’s estimated that La Magie Noire would sell between € 5 million (£ 4.4 million) to € 7 million, but it is expecting it to be brought much more.
Sotheby’s Vice President Thomas Bompard, Vice President of France, said, “I have dealt with a great magritte in the same family for the first time. It’s like the history of the family,” he said.
Bompard said, “This painting is the Swift of Taylor Swift’s surrealism,” Bompard said. “If you were to ask a group of school children to make a presentation about the surrealist movement, this table would be enough to describe it. I call it superstitism of surrealism.”
He worked as a designer at a wallpaper -born Magrit in Belgium and created advertising posters until 1926, when he produced his first surrealist work. The following year, he held his first exhibition in Brussels, but critics could not handle his trail in a wild and horrific magritte.
In 1930, he returned Belgium and founded an advertising agency with his brother Paul.
Bompard said, “Life was very difficult for Magritte now. The Great Depression, which started in the United States in 1929, shot France in the early 1930s. Between 1930 and 1932, he did not sell anything in Magritte for two years and there was no exhibition.”
“Nobody was taking pictures by surrealists. He was accepted as a revolutionary chief scourge.”
Spaak’s husband Claude knew Magritte, a famous Belgian playwright, and was a philanthropist who appointed portraits of his wife and children. A monthly scholarship for the artist and his family.
In 1934, Suzanne Spaak’s sister Alice Lorge, known as Bunny, bought La Magie Noire to mark the birth of her first child with a Belgian industrialist Emile Happe.
Bompard said, “The Spaak family to Belgium, what Mountbatens to England, like the Royal Family and Magritte out of difficulty,” Bompard said. “He was purchased to mark the birth of a child, but he was reborn for Magritte, who struggled to raise himself.”
The model of the series was Georgette Berger, Magritte’s wife, who was classically depicted in a stone block of a stone block. As the upper body slowly mixes into the sky behind it, the lower half protects its natural tone.
Magritte continued to draw 10 similar portraits, most of which are given different names. In this study, Berger, the first of the series, is depicted with a pigeon on his right shoulder. One -third of the background shows a semi -wood panel.
Suzanne and Claude Spaak lived in Paris when the war began in 1939. After the Nazi occupation of the French capital, he joined the resistance and was a member of the “Red Orchestra” intelligence unit. Spaak used his important heir to save 163 Jewish children without deportation and hid many of them at home before moving to security.
In October 1943, the Nazis arrested Spaak with members of 600 red orchestra. On August 12, 1944, Gestapo executed him in the prison cell days before Paris’s liberation. He was 38 years old, and since then he was honored by Israel as one of the honests among the nations for his efforts to save the Jewish people.
Magritte died of pancreatic cancer on August 15, 1967 and was buried in Brussels.
The picture, which was exhibited at the Magritte Museum in Brussels, has been rarely seen except Belgium for more than nine years.
La Magie Noire will be exhibited in Sotheby’s Paris between 17-23 October before its sale on October 24th.
