René Magritte

Galerie Lou Cosyn, Brussels 

Brook Street Gallery, London 

Malcolm and Robin McCorquodale, London (acquired from the above in 1978) 

Sotheby's, New York, 6 May 2015, lot 383 (consigned by the above) 

Private Collection, Dubai (acquired from the above) 

Christie's, New York, 21 June 2018, lot 354 

Acquired from the above by the present owner  

Paul Nougé, René Magritte ou Les Images défendues, Brussels, 1943, p. 50, illustrated 

Patrick Waldberg, René Magritte, Brussels, 1965, p. 181, illustrated 

Exh. Cat., London, Magritte, 1969, p. 65, illustrated 

Jose Vovelle, Le Surréalisme en Belgique, Brussels, 1972, p. 139, illustrated 

David Sylvester and Sarah Whitfield, eds., René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné, Oil Paintings and Objects, 1931 - 1948, vol. II, London, 1993, no. 528, p. 314, illustrated 

Exh. Cat., Phliadelphia Museum of Art, Giorgio de Chirico and the Myth of Ariadne, 2002, pp. 122-23, fig. 67, illustrated

Brussels, Galerie Dietrich, René Magritte, 1944 

Brussels, Galerie des Editions La Boétie, Surréalisme, 1946, no. 71 

Société Royale des Beaux-Arts de Verviers, René Magritte, January - February 1947, no. 9 

London, Grosvenor Gallery, Magritte, September - October 1961, no. 27 

Turin, Galleria Galatea, Magritte, May - June 1962, no. 20 

Milan, Galleria Falanga, Magritte, 1962, no. 19 

London, Hayward Gallery, Dada and Surrealism Reviewed, January - March 1978, no. 16 R/S 13 

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts and Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Rétrospective Magritte, October - December 1978, no. 129, illustrated 

London, Hayward Gallery; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Houston, Menil Collection and Art Institute of Chicago; Magritte, May - August 1992, no. 87