René Magritte

Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York

William N. Copley, Los Angeles, Paris and New York

Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York (acquired from the above circa 1993-94)

Acquired from the above on 23 November 1994 by the present owner

New York, Albert Landry Galleries, René Magritte in New York: Private Collections, 1961, no. 38

Little Rock, Arkansas Art Center, Magritte, 1964, n.p., illustrated (dated 1937)

London, The Hayward Gallery; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Houston, The Menil Collection and Art Institute of Chicago, Magritte, 1992-93, no. 85, n.p., illustrated in color

Marcel Marien, Magritte, Brussels, 1943, pl. 1, illustrated in color

L’Echo du Zoute et du Littoral, Brussels, 13 July 1946, p. 3, illustrated

De Roode vaan, Brussels, 27 December 1945, p. 4, illustrated

Patrick Waldberg, René Magritte, Brussels, 1965, pp. 18 and 338; p. 21, illustrated

Suzi Gablik, Magritte, Greenwich, 1970, p. 26 and 196; pl.15, illustrated (dated 1940)

Harry Torczyner, Magritte: Ideas and Images, New York, 1977, no. 63, p. 48, illustrated; p. 266 (dated 1940)

René Magritte, La destination: lettres à Marcel Mariën, 1937-1962, Brussels, 1977, nos. 46-48, pp. 51-55

Suzi Gablik, Magritte, London, 1985, pp. 23-24, 27 and 200; pl.15, illustrated (dated 1940)

David Sylvester, Magritte: The Silence of the World, New York, 1992, p. 92; p. 93, illustrated in color

Sarah Whitfield; David Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, Oil Paintings and Objects 1931-1948, vol. II, London, 1993, no. 504, p. 298, illustrated

Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn; David Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné: Supplement, Exhibitions Lists, Bibliography, Cumulative Index, vol. V, San Francisco, 1997, pp. 26 and 33

Exh. Cat., Paris, Jeu de Paume, Magritte, 2003, p. 132, illustrated in color

Siegfried Gohr, Magritte: Attempting the Impossible, New York, 2009, no. 125, p. 80, illustrated; pp. 81-82

Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 2013, pp. 29 and 40