René Magritte

Pierre Scheidweiler, Brussels (acquired from the artist on 8 April 1965)

Private Collection, Brussels

Christie’s, London, 29 November 1993, lot 40 (consigned by the above) 

Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above sale) 

Christie’s, London, 24 June 2014, lot 48 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Brussels, Salle des Métiers d’Art du Brabant; Saint-Hubert, Palais Abbatial and Spa, Pouhon Pierre-le-Grand, Peintres et Sculpteurs du Hainaut, 1966

Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, René Magritte, Het mysterie van de werkelijkheid, Le mystère de la réalité, 1967, no. 100, pp. 224-25, illustrated

David Sylvester, Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn, René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné, vol. IV, London, 1994, no. 1579, p. 282, illustrated