- Title
- The Liberator
- Date Made
- 1947
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 39 3/16 × 31 1/8 × 1 3/8 in. (99.54 × 79.06 × 3.49 cm)
- Accession Number
- 52.31
- Collecting Area
- Modern Art
- Provenance
The artist (1898-1967); [sold by 1948 to Alexander Iolas, Hugo Gallery, New York]; sold to William Copley (1919-1996), Beverly Hills; given in 1952 to the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art; transferred in 1961 to LACMA.
- Selected Bibliography
- Soby, James Thrall. Rene Magritte. New York: Doubleday; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1965.
- Otlinger, Didier, ed. Magritte. Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1996.
- Barron, Stephanie, Michel Draguet, and Sara Cochran. Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Belgium: Ludion, 2006.
- Van der Marck, Jan. In Quest of Excellence: Civic Pride, Patronage, Connoisseurship. Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida, January 14-April 22, 1984. Miami, FL: The Center, 1984.
- Haskell, Caitlin. René Magritte: The Fifth Season. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2018.
- Roegiers, Patrick. Magritte and Photography. Ghent: Ludion, 2005.
- Sylvester, David, and Sarah Whitfield. René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné. Edited by David Sylvester. Houston and London: Menil Foundation and Philip Wilson Publishers, 1992. Illustrated, p. 388.
- Sylvester, David, and Sarah Whitfield. René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné. Edited by David Sylvester. Houston and London: Menil Foundation and Philip Wilson Publishers, 1992.
- Copyright
- © C. Herscovici/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
