René Magritte

Georgette Magritte, Brussels (acquired as a gift from the artist)

Sotheby's, London, 2 July 1987, lot 811 (consigned by the estate of the above)

The Mayor Gallery, London (acquired at the above sale) 

Bo Franzén, Stockholm and New York 

Acquired from the above by 1992 by the present owner

Brussels, Musée d'Ixelles, Magritte, 1959, no. 35 (titled Objet peint)

London, Obelisk Gallery, Magritte: Paintings, Drawings, Gouaches, 1961, no. 16, p. 16 (titled Objet peint and dated 1932)

Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, René Magritte, Het mysterie van de werkelijkheid, le mystère de la réalité, 1967, no. 34, p. 100; p. 101, illustrated (titled L'Oeil and dated 1932)

Stockholm, Moderna Museet, René Magritte, 1967, no. 28 (dated 1932)

London, Hayward Gallery; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Houston, The Menil Collection; The Art Institute of Chicago, Magritte, 1992-93, no. 154, n.p., illustrated in color

Paris, Centre Pompidou, Feminin-Masculine, Le Sexe de l’art, 1995-96, no. 254, p. 179, illustrated in color; p. 379

Brussels, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, René Magritte 1898-1967, 1998, no. 322, p. 270, illustrated in color

New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Houston, The Menil Collection; Art Institute of Chicago; Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938, 2013-14, p. 187, pl. 109, illustrated in color

New York, Blain|Di Donna, René Magritte: Dangerous Liaisons, 2011, p. 20; p. 21, illustrated in color; illustrated in a photograph of the artist’s home; pp. 70-71

New York, Di Donna Galleries and Ben Brown Fine Arts, Magritte & Les Lalanne: In the Mind’s Garden, 2025, p. 56; pp. 57 and 177; illustrated in color

Paris Match Benelux, 2 January 1965, p. BVI, illustrated in a photograph with the artist

“This is Not Magritte,” Esquire, vol. LXV, no. 2, February 1966, p. 102, illustrated in color in a photograph of the artist's residence

Le Soir Illustré, 17 August 1967, p. 38, illustrated in a photograph with the artist

Paris Match Benelux, 26 August 1967, p. B1, illustrated in a photograph with the artist

Bernard Teyssèdre, Catherine Backès and Gilbert Lascault, et al., Les Sciences humaines et l'oeuvre d'art, Brussels, 1969, illustrated on the cover (titled L'Oeil and dated 1932)

A. M. Hammacher, René Magritte, New York, 1973, p. 45, illustrated (titled L’Objet (L’Oeil) and dated 1932)

Alain Robbe-Grillet and René Magritte, La Belle Captive, Brussels, 1975, p. 92, illustrated in color (titled L’Oeil)

Rheinische Splitter und Augenblicke: dem Internationalen Symposion der Deutschen Ophthalmologischen Gesellschaft, Cologne, 1976, p. 30, illustrated

Duane Michals, A Visit with Magritte, Providence, 1981, n.p., illustrated in a photograph of the artist's residence

Barbara Stoeltie, "After Magritte," The World of Interiors, April 1986, p. 147, illustrated in a photograph of the artist's residence

Jacques Meuris, Magritte, Paris, 1988, no. 123, p. 84, illustrated (titled L’Objet/ L’Oeil and dated 1932)

David Sylvester, Magritte, The Silence of the World, New York, 1992, pp. 193-94

David Sylvester and Sarah Whitfield, René Magritte. Catalogue Raisonné, Oil Paintings and Objects 1931-1948, vol. II, Antwerp, 1993, no. 685, p. 44; p. 433, illustrated

Robert Hughes, ed., Les Essentiels de l'Art Magritte, Paris, 2001, p. 173, illustrated in color

Patrick Roegiers, Magritte et la photographie, Ghent, 2005, no. 141, p. 102, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, 2006-07, p. 235, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Milan, Palazzo Reale, Magritte, Il Mistero della natura, 2008-09, n.p., illustrated in a photograph of the artist's residence

Siegfried Gohr, Magritte, Attempting the Impossible, New York, 2009, no. 416, p. 306, illustrated in color