19 x 23 1鈦�8 in. (48.2 x 58.7 cm.)
Provenance
Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York (acquired from the artist, August 1949).
Hugo Gallery, New York (acquired from the above).
Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York (acquired from the above, 30 March 1950).
Louise Auchincloss Boyer, New York (gift from the above, December 1950).
Gordon Auchincloss Robbins, New York (by descent from the above, July 1974).
Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York (acquired from the above).
Daniel Filipacchi, Paris (acquired from the above, 1974).
Byron Gallery, New York (by 1978).
Private collection (acquired from the above, 1981); sale, Christie's, New York, 13 November 2017, lot 12A.
Private collection (acquired at the above sale); sale, Christie's, New York, 10 November 2023, lot 16B.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Exhibited
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts and Paris, Mus茅e national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, R茅trospective Magritte , October 1978-April 1979, p. 224, no. 145 (illustrated in color; detail illustrated in color on the cover).
Milan, Galleria del Milione, Ren茅 Magritte: Il buon senso e il senso delle cose , May 1984, p. 51, no. 11 (illustrated in color, p. 37).
