René Magritte

E.L.T. Mesens, London and Brussels (acquired by 1939 and until at least 1956)

Marc Hendrickx, Brussels (acquired by 1965)

Galerie André Petit, Paris

Byron Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by 1968 by the present owner

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, René Magritte: peintures, objets surréalistes, 1936, no. 17

New York, Julien Levy Gallery, René Magritte, 1938, no. 10

London, The Lefevre Gallery, René Magritte, 1953, no. 12, p. 2, illustrated; p. 3

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, René Magritte, 1954, no. 52, p. 31

Charleroi, Salle de la Bourse, XXXme Salon du Cercle Royal Artistique Littéraire, 1956, no. 61, n.p.

New York, Byron Gallery, René Magritte, 1968, no. 9, p. 19, illustrated in color

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts and Paris, Centre Pompidou, Rétrospective Magritte, 1978-79, no. 116, n.p., illustrated

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, 1999, vol. I, no. 133, p. 197, illustrated in color

Patrick Walberg, René Magritte, Brussels, 1965, p. 240, illustrated in color; p. 350

A.M. Hammacher, René Magritte, New York, 1973, fig. 24, p. 24, illustrated

Sarane Alexandrian, Dictionnaire de la peinture surréaliste, Paris, 1973, p. 37, illustrated in color

Alain Robbe-Grillet, La Belle Captive, Paris, 1975, pp. 104-05, illustrated

Jacques Baron, Anthologie plastique du surréalisme, Paris, 1980, p. 166, illustrated in color

René Passeron, René Magritte, New York, 1980, pp. 70-71, illustrated in color

David Sylvester and Sarah Whitfield, René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, London, 1992, no. 401, p. 219, illustrated