Modern Gallery, New York (Marius de Zayas, acquired circa 1915-17)
John Quinn, New York (acquired from the above circa 1917-24 and sold by his estate: Vente Collection John Quinn, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, October 28, 1926, lot 42)
Dr. Alfred Gold, Berlin
Given from the above to the present owner in 1947

New York, Modern Gallery, André Derain, 1917, n.n.
Kunsthalle Bern, André Derain, no. 22
Regina,  Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery at the University of Saskatchewan; Berkeley, University Art Museum, André Derain in North American Collections, 1982, no. 19, illustrated in the catalogue

Michel Kellermann, André Derain, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, vol. I,  Paris, 1992, no. 403, illustrated p. 249

Canvas is wax lined. Surface is clean. Under UV light: there is a one inch stroke of inpainting just to the left of figure's face. Scattered dots of retouching in brown rectangle to left of figure's elbow at lower left, as well as scattered strokes along extreme left, top and right edges to address prior frame abrasion. Otherwise fine, work is in good condition.
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