René Magritte

Georges Hugnet, Paris (acquired by 1961)

Galerie André Petit, Paris

Daniel Filipacchi, Paris

Acquired from the above by 1968 by the present owner

London, Obelisk Gallery, Magritte: Paintings, Drawings, Gouaches, 1961, no. 25, p. 23 

New York, Byron Gallery, René Magritte, 1968, no. 12, p. 37, illustrated (catalogued as oil on canvas) 

Southampton, The Parrish Art Museum, René Magritte: Poetic Images, 1979, no. 14, illustrated

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, 1999, vol. I, no. 135, p. 199, illustrated in color

Paris, Jeu de Paume, Magritte: The Use of Painting, 2003, p. 133, illustrated in color

The Arts Review, London, 23 September-7 October 1961, p. 2 

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

Jacques Baron, Anthologie plastique du surréalisme, Paris, 1980, p. 165, illustrated in color

René Passeron, René Magritte, New York, 1980, pp. 20-21, illustrated in color (with incorrect dimensions)

David Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. IV, London, 1994, no. 1178, p. 53, illustrated

Siegfried Gohr, Magritte: Attempting the Impossible, no. 130, p. 84, illustrated in color