id: 156568 accession number: 1992.275 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.275 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:14.796000 Utopia, 1945. René Magritte (Belgian, 1898–1967). Watercolor and gouache; sheet: 32.1 x 41.8 cm (12 5/8 x 16 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Lockwood Thompson 1992.275 © C. Herscovici / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York title: Utopia title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1945 creation date earliest: 1945 creation date latest: 1945 current location: creditline: Bequest of Lockwood Thompson copyright: © C. Herscovici / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York --- culture: Belgium, 20th century technique: watercolor and gouache department: Drawings collection: DR - Belgian type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: Sylvester 1191 --- CREATORS * René Magritte (Belgian, 1898–1967) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 32.1 x 41.8 cm (12 5/8 x 16 7/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: beige(1) wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: signed lower left, in black ink: Magritte; verso, center right, in graphite: L'Utopie; center right, in black ink: La Peri [crossed out in graphite] / Magritte 1945; upper right, stamped in purple ink: Galerie / Lou Cosyn / 21 rue de la Madeleine, brux. [set inside an oval border] translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Surrealism in Perspective opening date: 1979-10-03T04:00:00 Surrealism in Perspective. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 3, 1979-January 6, 1980). title: Selected Acquisitions opening date: 1993-02-09T05:00:00 Selected Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-April 11, 1993). title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Galerie Lou Cosyn, Brussels, sold to Lockwood Thompson) date: 1945 footnotes: citations: Lockwood Thompson [1901-1992], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1945-1992 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1992- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS exhibited with this title in 1993 CMA exhibition page number: url: Lawrence, Michael G. Surrealism in Perspective. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979. page number: Mentioned: p. 33 url: Sylvester, David, ed. René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, Volume IV: Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Collés 1918-1967. London: Menil Foundation, 1992. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 60, no. 1191 url: "Catalogue." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 1 (January 1993): 65-73. page number: Mentioned: p. 73, no. 243 url: DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. page number: Mentioned: pp. 266-267, 298; Reproduced: p. 267 url: Clarke, Victoria. Flower: Exploring the World in Bloom. London; New York : Phaidon Press Limited, 2020. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 196 url: --- IMAGES