Edward James, London (acq🍰uired directly from the artist)

Christie’s, London, 30 Marc🅺h 1981, lot 4 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, London

Acquavella Galleries, New York

Donald Morris Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan

Acquired from the above on 5 December 1984 by the pr🔯esent owner

A.M. Hammacher, René Magritte, New York, 1971, pl. 33, p. 130, i🙈llustrated in color; p. 1ඣ31

Alain Robbe-Grillet, La Belle captive, Paris, 1975, p. 141, illustrated; p. 157

Henry Torczyner, René Magritte, New York, 1977, pl. 228, p. 12⛄6, illustrated in color; p. 268

Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn; David Sylvester, ed., René Magritte Catalogue Raisonné: Gouaches, Temperas, Watercolours and Papiers Collés 1918-1967, vol. I🍃V, London, 1994, no. 1143, p. 34, illustrated 

Siegfried Gohr, Magritte, Attempting the Impossible,෴ New York, 2009, no. 121, p. 77, illustrated in color (d♐ated 1938-39)

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, René Magritte, 1939, no. 28  

Worthing Art Gallery, Paintings from the Collection of Edward James, Esq., 1963, no. 24

Durham, Dunhelm House, Durham Surrealist Festival Exhibition, 1968, no. 3, illustrated on the back cover

London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Surrealist Pictures from the Edward James Collection, 1969, no. 27

London, Marlborough Fine Art, Magritte, Retrospective Loan Exhibition, 1973, no. 41, p. 42; p. 86, illustrated (titled Le Poison)

Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery, The Edward James Collection, 1976, no. 40, p. 10 (titled Le poison)

New York, Acquavella Galleries, XIX & XX Century Master Drawings and Watercolors, 1984, no. 22