René Magritte

(possibly) Camille Goemans, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)

Joë Bousquet, Carcassonne (probably acquired from the above circa 1929-30 and until at least 1946)

Palais Galliéra, Paris, 10 December 1964, lot 151

Gerald Wexler, New York

Byron Gallery, New York

Acquired in the late 1960s by the present owner

London, Hanover Gallery, The Poetic Image, 1966, no. 28, n.p., illustrated (dated 1930 and with incorrect dimensions)

Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen and Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Magritte: het mysterie van de werkelijkheid, 1967, no. 32, p. 96; p. 97, illustrated (Rotterdam); no. 23 (Stockholm) (dated 1929, with incorrect dimensions and incorrect provenance)

New York, Byron Gallery, René Magritte, 1968, no. 5, p. 21, illustrated (dated 1929)

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts and Paris, Centre Pompidou, Rétrospective Magritte, 1978-79, no. 89, n.p., illustrated in color

Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, Magritte, 1996, no. 54, p. 140, illustrated in color

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, 1999, vol. I, no. 128, p. 191; pp. 192-93, illustrated in color

Sarane Alexandrian, Dictionnaire de la peinture surréaliste, Paris, 1973, p. 32-33, illustrated in color

Joë Bousquet, Lettres mêlées, Marcinelle, 1979, p. 51

Exh. Cat., Madison, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Richard Artschwager Public (public), 1991, fig. 4, p. 12, illustrated (dated 1928)

David Sylvester ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné: Oil Paintings 1916-1930, vol. I, 1992, no. 299, p. 328, illustrated