Untitled (Woman-Bottle)

1. The artist; E.L.T. Mesens, Brussels (1903–1971), c. 1946 (this and the following according to Sylvester 1993, cat. 696); sold through the London Gallery to Eileen Agar (1889–1991), London, by the late 1940s; Hanover Gallery, London, late 1950s [Agar 1967]; Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago; sold to Joseph (1904–1996) and Jory Shapiro (1911–1993), Chicago, by 1961 [according to verso label and letter from William C. Seitz to Joseph R. Shapiro, Feb. 10, 1961; copies in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1996.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Museum of Modern Art, The Art of Assemblage, Oct. 2–Nov. 12, 1961, cat. 139, as Painted bottle with carved wooden stopper; Dallas, Museum for Contemporary Arts, Jan. 9–Feb. 11, 1962; San Francisco, Museum of Arts, Mar. 5–Apr. 15, 1962.
• Chicago, The Renaissance Society, René Magritte, Mar. 1–Apr. 10, 1964, as bottle.
• Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Selections from the Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection, Dec. 20, 1969–Feb. 1, 1970, cat. 153, (as Untitled, ca. 1957).
• The Art Institute of Chicago, The Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection, Feb. 23–Apr. 14, 1985, cat. 93, as Untitled (Bottle Nude) c.1946/49 (shown with stopper).
• Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections, Dec. 1, 1984–Jan. 27, 1985, as Untitled (Bottle Nude) (shown without stopper).

• Eileen Agar, Studio International (Oct. 1967), p. 130.
• William Seitz, The Art of Assemblage, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1961), cat. 139, p. 60 (ill., with stopper).
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Selections from the Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1969), cat. 153 (ill, as Unitlted, ca. 1957).
• Dawn Ades, Terry Ann R. Neff, et al., In the Mind’s Eye: Dada and Surrealism (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1985), p. 169 (ill., without stopper).
• Katherine Kuh and Dennis Adrian, The Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1985), 80, fig 72, cat. 93 (color ill.), 111, cat. 93, as Untitled (Bottle Nude) c.1946/49, (shown with stopper)
• David Sylvester and Sarah Whitfield, René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, Volume II: Oil Paintings and Objects, 1931-1948 (Houston, Menil Foundation and Fonds Mercator, 1993), cat. 69 (ill.).

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