Man Ray

Galeria Il Collezionista d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome (acquired from the artist in 1973) 

Private Collection, Rome (acquired from the above in 1990)

Sotheby's, London, 28 November 1995, lot 301 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Rome, Galeria Il Collezionista d'Arte Contemporanea, Man Ray, Opere 1914-1973, October-December 1973, pp. 80-81, illustrated p. 81 (present example in its original state)

Man Ray, Oggetti d'Affezione, Turin 1970, pl. 38, illustration of the original object 

Arturo Schwarz, Man Ray, 60 ans de libertés, Paris 1971, no. 73, illustration of another example

Janus, Man Ray, Milan 1973, no. 41, illustration of another example in color p. 139

Roland Penrose, Man Ray, London 1975, no. 124, p. 189, illustration of another example

Arturo Schwarz, Man Ray, The Rigour of Imagination, London 1977, no. 288, pp. 171 and 368, illustration the original object p. 171

Exh. Cat., Frankfurter Kunstverein (and traveling), Man Ray: Inventionen und Interpretationen, 1979-1980, no. 52, illustration of the original object p. 95

Brigitte Hermann and Rosalind E. Krauss, Man Ray: Objets de mon affection, Sculptures et objets, Catalogue raisonné, Paris 1983, no. 58, pp. 62 and 149, illustration of the original object p. 62

Exh. Cat., Antwerp, Ronny Van de Velde, Man Ray 1890-1976, 1994, no. 375, pp. 263 and 342, illustration of another example p. 263

Exh. Cat., London, Tate Modern (and traveling), Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia, 2008, fig. 212, pp. 160-61, illustrated of another example of in color p. 166

Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection (and traveling), Man Ray - Human Equations: A Journey from Mathematics to Shakespeare, February 2015-January 2016, fig. 143, pp. 164-65, illustration of another example in color p. 165 

Alisa Carroll, Art House: The Collaboration of Chara Schreyer & Gary Hutton, New York 2016, pp. 16, 27 and 218, illustrated in color (installed in the Four Seasons, San Francisco)

Douglas Fogle and Hannake Skerath, eds., Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection, New York 2021, p. 49 and 416, illustrated in color p. 49