René Magritte

Léontine Hoyez-Berger, Brussels (the artist's sister-in-law; acquired as a gift from the artist and until at least 1971)
Georgette Magritte, Brussels
Private Collection, Chicago (acquired as a gift from the above in 1983)
Sotheby's, London, 26 February 2019, lot 32 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner 

Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art and Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art, René Magritte Retrospective, 1971, no. 104, illustrated

David Sylvester, Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn, René Magritte Catalogue Raisonné, vol. IV, London, 1994, no. 1188, p. 58, illustrated