Study for "The Blank Signature"

1965

René Magritte

Artist, Belgian, 1898 - 1967

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite with charcoal, brown ink, and oil paint (?) on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 35.88 × 26.99 cm (14 1/8 × 10 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2014.18.27

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Sylvester 1992, fig. b, under no. 1017

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The artist's wife, Mme. Georgette Magritte [c. 1900-1986], Brussels; Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia; bequest 1999 to NGA, with life interest to his wife, Rachel Lambert Mellon [1910-2014].

Associated Names

Bibliography

1992

  • Sylvester, David, ed. René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné. 5 vols. London, 1992-1997, vol. 3: fig. b, under no. 1017.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: 43 mm.; lower right in graphite: jpp. 31 25

Wikidata ID

Q64620334

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