René Magritte

Private Collection, Belgium (acquired as a gift from the artist circa 1936)

Private Collection, Belgium (acquired by descent from the above)

Christie's, London, 1 December 1987, lot 152a (consigned by the above)

Private Collection (acquired circa 1988)

Christie's, London, 24 June 2008, lot 73 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above sale)

Private Collection, California (acquired from the above in 2014)

Christie’s, London, 27 February 2019, lot 116 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Brussels, Galerie Vedovi, Le Surréalisme, 1997, pp.20- 21, illustrated in colour

Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Magritte, 1898-1967, 1998, no. 108, p. 126, illustrated in colour (dated 1935)

Tate Liverpool and Vienna, Albertina, René Magritte: The Pleasure Principle, 2011-12, p. 84, illustrated in colour

Virginia, The Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia, Joseph Cornell and Surrealism, 2014

David Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue raisonné, Oil Paintings and Objects, 1931-1948, vol. II, London, 1993, no. 391, p. 213, illustrated

Robert Hugues, Magritte en poche, Anvers, 2009, p. 157, illustrated