René Magritte

Léontine Hoyez-Berger, Brussels (acquired as a gift from the artist by 1954 and until at least 1962)

Mr. and Mrs. N.P. Bosted, Brussels (acquired by 1965)

Private Collection, Europe

Sotheby's, London, 29 November 1988, lot 84 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

A. Marc, "René Magritte à Liège," La Lanterne, Brussels, 22 September 1953, p. 4, illustrated

Patrick Waldberg, René Magritte, Brussels, 1965, n.n., p. 81, illustrated and p. 341

Harry Torczyner, Magritte, New York, 1977, no. 273, p. 144, illustrated and p. 268

Pere Gimferrer, Magritte, Paris, 1986, no. 82, n.p., illustrated

Jacques Meuris, Magritte, 1898-1967, Cologne, 1993, no. 115C, pp. 114-15, illustrated in color

Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn; David Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. III, 1993, no. 794, pp. 31, 50 and p. 221, illustrated

René-Marie Jongen, René Magritte ou La Pensée Imagée de L’Invisible: Réflexions et recherches, Brussels, 1994, no. 9, illustrated, pp. 55-58 and p. 273

Patrick Roegiers, Magritte et la photographie, Amsterdam, 2005, fig. 177, p. 130, illustrated (in a photograph with the artist)

Jacques Meuris, Magritte, 1898-1967, Cologne, 2007, n.n., pp. 114-15, illustrated in color 

Siegfried Gohr, Magritte: Attempting the Impossible, New York, 2009, no. 100, pp. 62-63, illustrated in color 

Alex Danchev, Magritte: A Life, New York and Toronto, 2020, p. 215, illustrated 

Liège, Galerie du Carré, René Magritte, 1953, no. 5 

Brussels, La Sirène, Oeuvres Récentes de René Magritte, 1953, no. 6

La Louvière, Maison des Loisirs, René Magritte, 1954, no. 27

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, René Magritte, 1954, no. 90, p. 38

Musée d'Ixelles, Exposition René Magritte, 1955, no. 78

Charleroi, Salle de la Bourse, XXXme Salon du Cercle Artistique et Littéraire de Charleroi, 1956, no. 103, p. 19

Musée d'Ixelles, Magritte, 1959, no. 78

Liege, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Exposition Magritte, 1960, no. 50, p. 13

Casino Knokke, L'Oeuvre de René Magritte, XVe Festival Belge d'Eté, 1962, no. 77, illustrated and p. 47 (dated 1950)

Mons, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Hainaut Cinq, 1964, no. 16

Ostende, Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst, From Ensor to Delvaux, 1996-97, n.n., p. 320, illustrated in color and p. 391

Casino Knokke, Magritte, 2001, no. 40, p. 65, illustrated in color and p. 126

Paris, Centre Pompidou and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Magritte: La trahison des images, 2016-17, n.n., p. 50, illustrated in color and p. 222