Paco Durrio, Spain (acquired by 1931)
Sir John & Lady Witt, London (acquired by 1963; sale: Sotheby's, London, 19th February 1987, lot 362)
Purchased at the above sale by the late owner

London, Leicester Galleries, The Durrio Collection of Works by Gauguin, 1931, no. 32
London, Courtauld Institute Galleries, The John Witt Collection Part I, European schools, 1963, no. 72
London, Tate Gallery, Gauguin and the Pont-Aven Group, 1966, no. 61, illustrated in the catalogue
Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin & Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Linie, Licht und Schatten. Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 1999, no. 108, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin Tiempo. Dibujos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Coleccion Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2000, no. 144, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La passion du dessin. Collection Jan et Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2002, no. 130, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Vienna, Albertina Museum, Goya bis Picasso. Meisterwerke der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2005, no. 76, illustrated in colour in the catalogue

Ronald Pickvance, The Drawings of Gauguin, London, 1970, illustrated pl. 97
The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection (exhibition catalogue), Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Venice, 1999, illustrated p. 401

Executed on cream laid paper, not laid down and t-hinged to the mount in two places along the upper edge. All four edges are deckled. The sheet is slightly time stained. There are some tape remnants to the upper and lower edges and some minor foxing in places.There is what appears to be a diagonal repaired tear to the lower left corner. Otherwise this work is in overall good condition.
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'[The present work] is one of many which once belonged to Gauguin's Spanish friend, the artist Paco Durrio. The style of the drawing shows how the influence of his Tahitian stay affected Gauguin's vision of Brittany in 1894' (Ronald Pickvance, op.cit., p. 20).