Gilbert Sénécaut, Antwerp (acquired dire𒅌ctly f🌄rom the artist and until at least 1993)

Private Collection

Galerie Hopkins-Thomas-Custot, Paris

Acquired from the abovꦺe in 2001 by the present owner

Paul Nougé, René Magritte ou Les Images défendues, Brussels, 1943, p. 61, illustrated

René Magritte, La Destination, Lettres à Marcel Mariën, Brussels, 1977,﷽ postcard no. 47; letter no. 61, p. 64; letter no. 84, p. 87

Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn; David Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, Oil Paintings and Objects, 1931-1948, vol. II, ꦰLondon, 1993, no. 529, p. 315, illustrated

David Sylvester, Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn, René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné, Supplement, Exhibition Lists, Bibliography, Cumulative Index, vol. V, London, 1997, p. 42

(possibly) Brussels, Galerie Lou Cosyn, Recent Pictures by Magritte, 1943

(possibly) Brussels, Galerie Dietrich, Exposition René Magritte, 1944