René Magritte The Portrait Brussels 1935
- MoMA, Floor 5, 517 The Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Galleries
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 28 7/8 x 19 7/8" (73.3 x 50.2 cm)
- Credit
- Gift of Kay Sage Tanguy
- Object number
- 574.1956
- Copyright
- © 2025 C. Herscovici, Brussels / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- René Magritte has 14 works online.
- There are 2,457 paintings online.
Installation views
We have identified these works in the following photos from our exhibition history.
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Recent Acquisitions: Kay Sage Tanguy Bequest
Sep 17–Dec 14, 1965
1 other work identified
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Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary,
1926–1938 Sep 28, 2013–Jan 12, 2014
2 other works identified
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Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary,
1926–1938 Sep 28, 2013–Jan 12, 2014
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Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary,
1926–1938 Sep 28, 2013–Jan 12, 2014
1 other work identified
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Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary,
1926–1938 Sep 28, 2013–Jan 12, 2014
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Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary,
1926–1938 Sep 28, 2013–Jan 12, 2014
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517: Surrealist Objects
Ongoing
5 other works identified
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517: Surrealist Objects
Ongoing
3 other works identified
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517: Surrealist Objects
Ongoing
4 other works identified
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517: Surrealist Objects
Ongoing
1 other work identified
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1935, René Magritte, Brussels.
1935 - 1940, E.L.T. (Edouard Léon Théodore) Mesens (1903-1971), Brussels and London (from 1938), purchased from the artist.
1940 - at least 1949, Gordon Onslow-Ford, San Francisco Bay Area, California, purchased from Mesens.
By 1956, Kay Sage Tanguy, Woodbury, Connecticut.
1956, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired as gift from Kay Sage Tanguy.
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