René Magritte

Galerie Le Centaure, Brussels

E.L.T. Mesens, Brussels (acquired from the above in 1932)

Grosvenor Gallery, London (acquired from the above circa 1960-61)

Sophia Loren and Carlo Ponti, Rome (acquired from the above before 1971)

Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired by 1991)

Galleria dello Scudo, Verona 

Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above circa 1992)

Thence by descent to the present owners 

Brussels, Galerie le Centaure, Exposition Magritte, 1927, no. 42

Charleroi, Salle de la Bourse, L'Exposition de quelques toiles de René Magritte, 1929

London, Grosvenor Gallery, Magritte, 1961, no. 11

Turin, Galleria Galatea, René Magritte, 1962, no. 10

Milan, Galleria Falanga, Magritte, 1962, no. 16, illustrated

Verona, Palazzo Forti, Da Magritte a Magritte, 1991, no. 25, p. 75, illustrated in colour; p. 273 (titled Le buste impossible)

Marcello Venturoli, "A Marino, la casa e la collezione di Carlo Ponti e Sophia Loren," Bolaffi Arte, no. 12, 1971, p. 50, illustrated in a photograph

David Sylvester, ed., Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn, René Magritte. Catalogue Raisonné. Oil Paintings: 1916-1930, vol. I, London, 1992, no. 93, p. 177, illustrated

Chaira Perin, “Mario Tazzoli e la Galleria Galatea,” Studi di Memofonte, no. 28, 2022, fig. 15, p. 62, illustrated in a photograph