Hugh Blaker Collection
Sale: Lasseron & Associé, Paris, December 15, 2008, lot 45
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

London, Roland, Browse & Delbanco, Fauve painting in France and abroad, 1951
London, Roland, Browse & Delbanco, La vie intime, 1966, no. 35
York, City Art Gallery, Newcastle on Tyne Hatton Gallery; Leicester Museum and Art Gallery; Brighton Art Gallery; London, Hampstead Artists Council, Works from the Roland Collection, 1950-51 (exhibition later traveled to 9 other destinations between 1952 and 1976)
London, Courtauld Institute; Norwich, Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts; York, City Art Gallery; Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Milton Keynes Central; Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery, 1979, no. 52
Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, One Man's Choice, 1985, no. 112

Max Wykes-Joyce, in Art Review, 1966, illustrated p. 245

Work is in excellent condition. Canvas is not lined. Surface is clean with a layer of varnish. A rich surface impasto is well preserved. Under UV light: no inpainting is apparent.
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