René Magritte

E. L. T. Mesens, Brussels (acquired from the artist in July 1938)

Dimitrije Mitrinovic, London (acquired as a gift from the above)

New Atlantis Foundation, London (acquired from the above by 1953)

Sotheby’s, London, 5 April 1978, lot 141 (consigned by the above)

Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels (acquired at the above sale)

Sotheby's, New York, 14 November 1985, lot 168

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Letter from Magritte to Edward James, 18 August 1937

Letter from Edward James to Magritte, 15 November 1937

Statement of account from E. L. T. Mesens to Magritte, 1 August 1938

Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn; David Sylvester, ed., Rene Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. IV, Antwerp, 1994, no. 1130, p. 26, illustrated

Christoph Grunenberg, Magritte A to Z, London, 2012, p. 112, illustrated in colour

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, E.L.T. Mesens présente trois peintres surréalistes: René Magritte, Man Ray, Yves Tanguy, 1937, no. 13

The London Gallery, René Magritte, Surrealist Paintings and Objects, 1938, no. 31

Paris and Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, Magritte 1898-1967, 1979, no. 8, n.p., illustrated in colour

London, Hayward Gallery; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Houston, The Menil Collection and Art Institute of Chicago, Magritte, 1992-93, no. 140, n.p., illustrated in colour

Tate Liverpool and Vienna, Albertina Museum, René Magritte, The Pleasure Principle, 2011-12