Galerie Neue Kunst Hans Goltz, Munich (acquired from the artist in 1919 and until at least 1920)
Collection Thorn 
Kunstkabinett, Stuttgart, 27 April 1951, lot 1916 (consigned by the above)
Galerie d'Art Moderne Marie-Suzanne Feigel, Basel (acquired at the above sale)
Kunstkabinett, Stuttgart, 29 May 1952, lot 1996 (consigned by the above)
Collection Klitzke (acquired at the above sale)
Berggruen & Cie, Paris
Theodore Schempp, Paris and New York (acquired from the above in 1953)
Acquired from the above in 1954 by the present owner

Marcel Brion, Paul Klee, Paris, 1955, no. 12, illustrated (titled Pierre Commémorative pour N.)
Carola Müller, Das Zeichen in Bild und Theorie bei Paul Klee, Ph.D. dissertation, Technische Universität München, Munich, 1979, p. 48
Wolfgang Kersten and Osamu Okuda, Paul Klee, Stuttgart, 1995, fig. 15, p. 62, illustrated
Jenny Anger, Modernism and the Gendering of Paul Klee, Ph.D. dissertation, Brown University, Providence, 1997, p. 109 (titled Memorial to N)
Josef Helfenstein and Christian Rümelin, eds., Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, London and New York, 2000, no. 1927, p. 485, illustrated; p. 472, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art and Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Paul Klee: Art in the Making 1883-1940, 2011, p. 86, illustrated
Brigitte Uhde-Stahl, Paul Klees geheime Symbolik, Berlin, 2018, pp. 196, 219, 283, 294; p. 244, illustrated in color

Berlin, Galerie Der Sturm, Paul Klee, Johannes Molzahn, Kurt Schwitters, 1919, no. 16
Munich, Galeriestrasse 26, Münchener Neue-Secession. V., 1919, no. 83
Wiesbaden, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Neues Museum, Neue Kunst Hans Goltz München: Kollektionen Hans Völcker, Otto Ritschl, 1920, no. 70
Paris, Berggruen & Cie, Paul Klee: Aquarelles et Dessins, 1953, n.p., illustrated in color
Ithaca, Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, The David M. Solinger Collection: Masterworks of Twentieth-Century Art, 2002-03, p. 85, illustrated in color