René Magritte

Harry Torczyner, New York (commissioned from the artist in 1963)
Private Collection, New York (acquired by descent from the above)
Christie’s, New York, 19 November 1998, lot 515 (consigned by the above)
Galerie Christine et Isy Brachot, Brussels (acquired from the above)
Private Collection, Belgium (acquired by 2002)
Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above in 2018)
Christie’s, Paris, 21 October 2020, lot 3 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Montreal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Magritte, 1996, no. 33, p. 118, illustrated in color 

Postcard from Magritte to Harry Torczyner, 18 June 1963, in Harry Torczyner, L’Ami Magritte, Correspondance et souvenirs, Anvers 1992, no. 279, p. 248
Postcard from Magritte to Harry Torczyner, 24 June 1963, in Harry Torczyner, L’Ami Magritte, Correspondance et souvenirs, Anvers 1992, no. 280, p. 248
Harry Torczyner, René Magritte, Ideas and Images, New York 1977, no. 271, pp. 142-43, illustrated
H. van Nieuwenhove, "Le domaine enchanté de Harry Torczyner,” Style, no. 9, December 1992, p. 27, illustrated in color
Harry Torczyner, L’Ami Magritte, Correspondance et souvenirs, Anvers 1992, no. 8, pp. 26 and 248, illustrated in color
René Magritte, Magritte/Torczyner, Letters Between Friends, New York 1994, p. 85, illustrated 
David Sylvester, Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn, René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné, Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Collés, 1918-1967, vol. IV, Anvers 1994, no. 1531, p. 255, illustrated