René Magritte

Georges Vriamont, Brussels (acquired by 1931 and until 1961)

Galerie André Petit, Paris

Acquired by 1968 by the present owner

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Guiette, Magritte, Picard, 1931, no. 33

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Le Nu dans l’art vivant, 1934, no. 49, p. 24

New York, Byron Gallery, René Magritte, 1968, no. 3, p. 11, illustrated

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, 1999, vol. I, no. 127, p. 191, illustrated in color

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts and Paris, Centre Pompidou, Rétrospective Magritte, 1978-79, no. 80, n.p., illustrated

Southampton, The Parrish Art Museum, René Magritte: Poetic Images, 1979, no. 5, n.p., illustrated

Montreal Museum of Replica Handbags s, Magritte, 1996 

Vienna, Kunstforum and Basel, Fondation Beyeler, René Magritte: The Key to Dreams, 2005, no. 32, p. 89, illustrated in color

Robert Desnos, “Les mystères du métropolitain,” Variétés, vol. II, no.12, 15 April 1930, p. 837, illustrated 

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

Jacques Baron, Anthologie plastique du surréalisme, Paris, 1980, p. 166, illustrated in color (dated 1929)

Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Early Work, 1987-89, p. 36, illustrated

David Sylvester, Magritte: The Silence of the World, New York, 1992, p. 146, illustrated in color  

David Sylvester and Sarah Whitfield, René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, London, 1992, no. 282, p. 85, illustrated in a photograph of the artist’s apartment; p. 316, illustrated; p. 317