La Bonne aventure
1939
A gouache work by Magritte titled 'The Good Fortune,' created during a period of artistic experimentation and surrealist development. The piece reflects the artist's interest in dreamlike imagery and symbolic representation.
- Medium
- gouache on paper laid down on board
- Location
- Sotheby's, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby'sView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Modern Evening Auction
May 13, 2025
Estimate: $3,000,000 to $4,000,000
Lot 10
Spotted works by René Magritte
Artists in conversation
Paul Delvaux
Belgian · b. 1897
Delvaux shares Magritte's Belgian surrealist vision, creating dreamlike figurative scenes with symbolic imagery rendered in meticulous gouache and paint techniques that evoke the same quiet uncanny atmosphere found in La Bonne aventure.
Giorgio de Chirico
Italian · b. 1888
De Chirico pioneered metaphysical painting with symbolic figurative imagery and mysterious dreamlike environments that directly parallel Magritte's surrealist exploration of fortune and fate through carefully rendered whimsical scenes.
Yves Tanguy
French · b. 1900
Tanguy was a core surrealist who worked extensively in gouache on paper, creating imaginative symbolic dreamscapes with figurative elements that share the same spirit of subconscious exploration and whimsical visual storytelling present in this 1939 Magritte work.
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