
Art Institute of Chicago
The Banquet
René Magritte · 1958
Provenance
Ownership history
- Alexander Iolas [according to a letter from Grace Hokin to Adam Jolles, Feb. 2, 1995, in curatorial files]; sold through B.C. Holland-Goldowsky Gallery, Chicago, to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1961; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1991.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, XXXIIe Salon [du] cercle royal artistique et littéraire de Charleroi, 1958, cat. 151.
- New York, Alexander Iolas Gallery, René Magritte, Mar. 2–28, 1959, no cat.
- Little Rock, Arkansas Arts Center, Magritte, May 15–June 30, 1964, no cat. no.
- Chicago, The Renaissance Society, Magritte, Mar. 1–Apr. 10, 1964, cat. 1.
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, René Magritte, Dec. 15, 1965–Feb. 27, 1966, cat. 66; traveled to Waltham, MA, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Apr. 3–May 1, 1966; Art Institute of Chicago, May 30–July 3, 1966; Pasadena Art Museum, Aug. 1–Sept. 4, 1966; and Berkeley, CA, University Art Museum, University of California, Oct. 1–Nov. 1, 1966.
- Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections, Dec. 1, 1984–Jan. 27, 1985, no cat. no.
- London, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Rene Magritte, not in cat.; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sept. 9–Nov. 22, 1992; Houston, Menil Collection, Dec. 15, 1992–Feb. 21, 1993; Chicago, Art Institute, Mar. 16–May 30, 1993 [Chicago only].
Literature
Published references
- James R. Mellow, “In the Galleries: Magritte,” Arts 32.8 (1958), p. 58.
- Sidney TIllim, “In the Galleries: René Magritte,” Arts 33.7 (1959), p. 51 (ill.).
- Anthony Bower, “Another Aspect of Little Rock,” Art in America 52.6 (1964), p. 138 (installation photo).
- Possibly Henri Michaux, “En rêvant à partir de peintures énigmatiques,” Mercure de France 352.1214 (Dec. 1964), p. 596.
- Magritte (Little Rock: Arkansas Arts Center, 1964), n.p. (ill.).
- James Thrall Soby, ed., René Magritte (New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1965), cat. 66 (ill.).
- Hernan Galilea, La Poesía superrealista de Vicente Aleixandre (Santiago de Chile: Centro de Investigaciones de Literatura Comparada, Universidad de Chile, 1971), pp. 37, 147 (ill.)
- Architectural Digest 1973, p. 22 (photo of Bergman home).
- Saturday Review 1980, p. 28 (photo of Bergman home).
- Terry Ann R. Neff, ed., with essays by Dawn Ades, et. al., In the Mind’s Eye: Dada and Surrealism Chicago (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1985), pp. 170–71, pl. 41.
- Lori Rotenberk, “A Surrealist Treasure Finds New Home at Art Institute,” Chicago Sun-Times (Nov. 7, 1991), p. 20 (installation photo).
- David Sylvester and Sarah Whitfield, René Magritte: Catalogue raisonné, vol. 3 (Basel Wiese Verlag, 1993), p. 283, cat. 868 (ill.), and pp. 87, 93, 280, 297.
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