Delusions of Grandeur II

Object Details

Artist

René Magritte, Belgian, b. Lessines, 1898–1967

Provenance

William Rubin, New York, to 1 July 1963

Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 1 July 1963-17 May 1966

Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966

Exhibition History

LOUISIANA MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, Humlebæk, Denmark. "Magritte," 6 August-28 November 1999. Tour: SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART, Edinburgh, October-March 2000; SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, 5 May-12 September.

FOUNDATION RENE MAGRITTE, Brussels. "Magritte, La Storia Centrale." Tour: MUSEU DEL RISORGIMENTO, Rome, 16 March-8 July 2001.

ROYAL MUSEUMS OF FINE ARTS, Belgium. "René Magritte." Tour: BUNKAMURA MUSEUM OF ART, Tokyo, 6 July-25 August 2002; NAGOYA CITY ART MUSEUM, 1 September-20 October; HIROSHIMA MUSEUM OF ART, 26 October-8 December.

GALERIE NATIONALE DU JEU DE PAUME, Paris. "René Magritte," 11 February-9 June 2003.

KUNSTFORUM WIEN, Vienna. "René Magritte," 6 April-24 July 2005. Tour: FONDATION BEYELER, Basel, Switzerland, 7 August-27 November.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Ways of Seeing: John Baldessari Explores the Collection," 26 July 2006-23 September 2007, no cat.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Strange Bodies," 11 December 2008-15 November 2009, no cat.

TATE LIVERPOOL. "René Magritte: The Pleasure Principle," 1 July-16 October 2011, color ill. p. 209; p. 270. Tour: ALBERTINA, Vienna, 9 November-26 February 2012.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Marvelous Objects: Surrealist Sculpture from Paris to New York," 29 October 2015-15 February 2016, p. 186.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Manifesto: Art x Agency," 15 June 2019-31 January 2020.

Published References

FORGEY, BENJAMIN. "The New Hirshhorn Museum," ArtNews 73, no. 8 (October 1974), ill. p. 42.

Credit Line

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966

1948

Accession Number

66.3199

Type

Painting

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

39 1/8 × 32 1/8 in. (99.2 × 81.5 cm)

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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection

School

Surrealism (European)

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Record ID

hmsg_66.3199

Metadata Usage (text)

Not determined

GUID (Link to Original Record)

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/py2b754c118-8bc3-4ba8-803b-7ebc6fe32b80