René Magritte

Charles Ratton, Paris (acquired in 1936)

Private Collection (acquired by 1986)

Sotheby’s, London, 5 December 1990, lot 163 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Paris, Galerie Charles Ratton, Exposition Surréaliste d’Objets, 1936, n.p.

Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Surréalisme, 1964, no. 188, n.p.

Bordeaux, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Surréalisme, 1971, no. 142, n.p.

London, Hayward Gallery, Dada and Surrealism Reviewed, 1978, no. 12.84, illustrated (dated circa 1936)

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts and Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Rétrospective Magritte, 1978-79, no. 200, illustrated

London, Hayward Gallery; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Houston, The Menil Collection and The Art Institute of Chicago, Magritte, 1992-93, no. 151, n.p., illustrated in colour 

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300-Now), 2018, no. 7, n.p, illustrated in colour

Letter from Magritte to André Breton, 19 March 1936

Letter from André Breton to Magritte, 8 April 1936

The Sunday Times Magazine, London, 1 January 1978, p. 24, illustrated in colour (dated circa 1936)

Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn; David Sylvester, ed., René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné, Oil Paintings and Objects, 1931-1948, vol. II, London, 1993, no. 678, p. 427, illustrated