The White Race

1. E. L. T. Mesens, c. 1938-1939, probably acquired directly from the artist [this and the following according to Sylvester 1992]; sold to Marc Hendrickx, Brussels, by 1954. Sold through Hanover Gallery, London, to Leonard J. (1908-1988) and Ruth P. Horwich (1920-2014), Chicago, May 1960 [Sylvester 1992]; the Leonard and Ruth Horwich Family Foundation; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, July 6, 2014.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Trois peintres surréalistes: René Magritte, Man Ray, Yves Tanguy, Dec. 11–22, 1937, cat. 16.
• Paris, Galerie Beaux-Arts, Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme, Jan.–Feb. 1938, cat. 111, as La race blanche IV.
• Les Compagnons de l’art, Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, June – Aug. 1938, cat. 111.
• Knokke, Casino Communal, Ve Festival Belge d’Eté, Aug. 2–22, 1952, cat. 18.
• London, The Lefevre Gallery, René Magritte, Nov. 1953, cat. 15, as La Race Blanche (IV).
• Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, René Magritte, May 7–June 1, 1954, cat. 58
• Antwerp, Zaal C.A.W., De vier hoofdpunten van het Surrealisme, Apr. 15–26, 1956, cat. 27, as La race blanche (IV).
• Chicago, The Renaissance Society, Magritte, Mar. 1–Apr. 10, 1964, cat. 3.
• Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections, Dec. 1, 1984–Jan. 27, 1985.
• London, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Rene Magritte, cat. 78; 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].
• Columbus, OH, Wexner Center for the Arts, Staging Surrealism: A Succession of Collections, Sept. 19, 1997-Jan. 4, 1998, no cat. no.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938, Sept. 28, 2013-Jan. 12, 2014, cat. 119; Houston, The Menil Collection, Feb. 14-June 1, 2014; Chicago, Art Institute, June 24-Oct. 13, 2014.

• André Breton and Paul Éluard, Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Beaux-Arts, 1938) n.p.
• The Sketch (Jan. 26, 1938), p. 173 (installation photograph of Paris 1938).
• The Sketch (Dec. 2, 1953), p. 567 (ill.).
• Yves Bossut, Gilles Brenta, Marcel Broodthaers, et al., La Partie fondue de l'iceberg (Brussels: Les Lèvres nues, 1979), p. 85 (ill.).
• Terry Ann R. Neff, ed., In the Mind’s Eye: Dada and Surrealism (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1986), pp. 167 (ill.) and 168.
• David Sylvester, Magritte: The Silence of the World (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1992), pp. 153 (ill.) and 345.
• David Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, v. 2 (Houston: The Menil Foundation, 1993), no. 445, pp. 251 (ill.) and 252.
• Donna de Salvo, ed., Staging Surrealism, exh. cat. (Columbus, OH: Wexner Center for the Arts and Ohio State University Press, 1997), 53, no cat. no. (color ill.), 81.
• Lewis Kachur, Displaying the Marvelous: Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dalí, and surrealist exhibition installations (Cambridge: MIT, 2001), 77, fig 2.4 (ill.).
• Guillermo Solana, La máquina Magritte/The Magritte Machine, exh. cat. (Madrid: Museo Nacional Thyssen¬–Bornemisza; Barcelona: Fundación La Caixa, 2021), 41, 42, fig. 30 [cat. 57] (color ill.), 125, cat. 57 (color ill.), 197.

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