The Eye

1. The artist; sold to Paul Gustave Van Hecke (1887-1977), by 1944–c. 1950 [photograph by Lee Miller of the object in Van Hecke home, 1944; this and the following according to provenance card, c. 1987, Menil Collection Archives]; given to Private Collection, Belgium, c. 1950 [letter from Bernard Giron, May 4, 2003, in curatorial file]. Private collection, New York, c. 1987. Timothy Baum, New York; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• London, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Rene Magritte, May 21–August 2, 1992, no. 155; traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 9–November 22, 1992, Houston, Menil Collection, December 15, 1992–February 21, 1993, and Art Institute of Chicago, March 16–May 30, 1993.
• Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, René Magritte, Mar. 18-July 11, 2012.
• Liverpool, Tate Liverpool, René Magritte: The Pleasure Principle, June 24, 2011-Febuary 26, 2012.
• Tokyo, National Art Center of Tokyo, René Magritte: The Search for the Absolute, Mar. 25–June 29, 2015; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, July 11–Oct. 12, 2015
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938, September 28, 2013-January 12, 2014, no. 110; traveled to Houston, The Menil Collection, February 14-June 1, 2014, and Chicago, Art Institute, June 24-October 13, 2014.

• Amei Wallach, “An Eye-Catching Magritte,” New York Newsday, September 11, 1992, p. 94.
• David Sylvester, Magritte: The Silence of the World (Houston and New York, 1992), pp. 193-94, 337.
• David Sylvester, ed., René Magritte, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 2 (Houston and London, 1993), 105 (ill.), 433, cat. 686 (ill.), as Objet peint: oeil (Painted object: eye), 1936 or 1937.
• Magritte A bis Z, ed. Christoph Grunrmberg and Darren Pih, Exh. cat. (Alberina Publishing, 2012), p. 8, p. 25, ill. 26, p. 259.
• Magritte A to Z, ed. Christoph Grunenberg and Darren Pih, Exh. cat. (Tate Publishing, 2012), p. 65, (ill.), p.195 p. 204.
• M. Therese Southgate, “The Cover,” Journal of the American Medical Association 272, no. 2 (13 July 1994), p. 90 (ill.).
• Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938, ed. Anne Umland, Exh. cat. (The Museum of Modern Art, 2013), ill. 188.
• Stephanie D’Alessandro and Renée DeVoe Mertz, The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2014), 124 (color ill.).

La durée poignardée (Time Transfixed)

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The Banquet

Art Institute of Chicago

On the Threshold of Liberty

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The Tune and Also the Words

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Homesickness

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Untitled (Woman-Bottle)

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The Balcony

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The White Race

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