René Magritte

Alexander Iolas, Paris and New York (acquired directly from the artist in February 1962)

Hanover Gallery, London (acquired from the above in 1965)

Private Collection (acquired from the above)

Byron Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by 1968 by the present owner

New York, Iolas Gallery, René Magritte, Paintings—Gouaches—Collages, 1960—1961—1962, 1962, no. 16

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, The Vision of René Magritte, 1962, no. 91

Little Rock, Arkansas Art Center, Magritte, 1964, n.n.

(possibly) San Francisco, Gump's Gallery, Magritte, 1964

(possibly) New York, Iolas Gallery, Magritte: le sens propre, 1965

Paris, Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Magritte: les images en soi, 1967

Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, Magritte, cent cinquante oeuvres: première vue mondiale de ses sculptures, 1968, no. 99

New York, Byron Gallery, René Magritte, 1968, no. 27, p. 61, illustrated

Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Magritte, 1998-99, no. 87, p. 166, illustrated in color 

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, 1999, vol. I, no. 153, p. 217, illustrated in color

Letter from Magritte to Iolas, 15 March 1961

Art and Artists, September 1966, p. 7, illustrated

René Passeron, René Magritte, Paris, 1970, p. 20, illustrated in color

Sarane Alexandrian, Dictionnaire de la peinture surréaliste, Paris, 1973, p. 36, illustrated in color

Michel Foucault, This is Not a Pipe, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1983, pp. vii, 8 and 44-45; pl. 22, n.p., illustrated

Harry Torczyner, Magritte: Ideas and Images, New York, 1977, p. 50, illustrated

Georges Roque, Ceci n’est pas un Magritte, Paris, 1983, no. 46, p. 43, illustrated; p. 196

Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn; David Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. III, London, 1993, no. 940, p. 355, illustrated; p. 356

René Magritte; Francine Perceval, ed., Lettres à André Bosmans: 1958-1967, Brussels, 1990, pp. 178-79 and 189

Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Houston, The Menil Collection and Art Institute of Chicago, Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1936, 2013, p. 39, illustrated in color