La durée poignardée (Time Transfixed)

1. The artist; sold to Edward James, London, by July 12, 1939 [letter from the artist to Edward James, July 12, 1939, Edward James Foundation, copy in curatorial file]; sold, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, Oct. 28, 1970, lot 50, to the Art Institute of Chicago.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, René Magritte, May 13–24, 1939, cat. 2.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Réne Magritte, Dec. 15, 1965–Feb. 27, 1966, no. 38; Waltham, MA, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Apr. 3–May 1, 1966; Art Institute of Chicago, May 30–July 3, 1966; Pasadena, Art Museum, Aug. 1–Sept. 4, 1966; Berkeley, University Art Museum, Oct. 1–Nov. 1, 1966.
• London, Tate Gallery, René Magritte, Feb. 14–Apr. 2, 1969, cat. 62.
• London, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Rene Magritte, May 19–Aug. 2, 1992; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sept. 9–Nov. 22, 1992; Houston, Menil Collection, Dec. 15, 1992–Feb. 21, 1993; Art Institute of Chicago, Mar. 16–May 30, 1993.
• Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux Arts de Belgique, Réne Magritte, Mar. 6–June 28, 1998, cat. 122.
• Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, La Revolution Surrealiste, Feb. 27–June 24, 2003, no cat. no.; Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfallen, July 20–Nov. 24, 2002.
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, René Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, Nov. 19, 2006–Mar. 4, 2007, no cat. no.
• Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Art in the Age of Steam: Europe, America and the Railway, 1830–1960, Sept. 13, 2008–Jan. 18, 2009.
• Liverpool, Tate Liverpool, René Magritte: The Pleasure Principle, June 24-Oct. 16, 2011, no cat. no.; Vienna, Albertina, Nov. 9, 2011-Feb. 26, 2012.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938, Sept. 28, 2013-Jan. 12, 2014, no. 126; Houston, The Menil Collection, Feb. 14-June 1, 2014, Art Institute of Chicsgo, June 24-Oct. 13, 2014.
• Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Magritte, la trahison des images, Sept. 21, 2016–Jan. 23, 2017, no cat. no., Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Feb. 10–June 5, 2017 (Paris only).
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Surrealism Beyond Borders, Oct. 11, 2021–Jan. 30, 2022, fig. 203, as La durée poignardée (Time Transfixed).; London, Tate Modern, Feb. 25-Aug. 29,. 2022,

• L’Invention collective, no. 1 (Feb. 1940), 4 (ill.).
• Saturday Book v. 19 (1959), 284 (ill.).
• James Thrall Soby, René Magritte, exh. cat. (New York, 1965), 37 (ill.).
• Patrick Waldberg, René Magritte, translated by Austryn Wainhouse (Brussels, 1965), 37 (ill.).
• The Collections of the Tate Gallery (London, 1967), 162.
• David Sylvester, Magritte, exh. cat. (London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1969), 7, 81 (ill.).
• Simon Watson Taylor, “René Magritte and André Breton,” Studio International, CLXXVII (Feb. 1969), 69 (ill.).
• Burlington Magazine, CXII (Sept. 1970), lxxviii (ill.).
• Arts Magazine, CXII (Sept. 1970), ill.
• “So Real Surrealism,” The Detroit News, Jan. 12, 1971, (ill.).
• Anne D’Harnoncourt, “Acquisitions of Modern Art by Museums,” Burlington Magazine, CXIV (Feb. 1972), 123 (ill.).
• José Vovelle, Le Surrealisme en Belgique (Brussels, 1972), 116 (ill.).

The Banquet

Art Institute of Chicago

On the Threshold of Liberty

Art Institute of Chicago

The Tune and Also the Words

Art Institute of Chicago

Homesickness

Art Institute of Chicago

The Eye

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Woman-Bottle)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Balcony

Art Institute of Chicago

The White Race

Art Institute of Chicago

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