René Magritte

Alexander Iolas, Paris and New York 

Helena Rubinstein, New York 

Patrick O’Higgins, New York (acquired by June 1969) 

Mr. and Mrs. Jack L. Wolgin, Philadelphia (acquired from the above in October 1969) 

Sotheby’s, New York, 8 November 2006, lot 404 (consigned by the above) 

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Jack L. Wolgin, 1970 

Harry Torczyner, René Magritte: signes et images, Paris, 1977, no. 253, p. 136, illustrated (titled La Ville magique)  

Jacques Wergifosse, "Magritte: à la rencontre du plaisir," La Meuse, October 1986, p. 50, illustrated 

David Sylvester, ed., Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn, René Magritte Catalogue Raisonné: Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Collés 1918-1967, vol. IV, London, 1994, no. 1447, p. 209, illustrated