Paul Gauguin

Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)
Alex, Reid & Lefevre, London (acquired from the above in 1935)
Galerie Bignou, Paris and New York (acquired from the above in 1937)
Joseph Winterbotham Jr., Burlington 
Art Institute of Chicago (acquired as a bequest from the above in 1954)
Sam Salz, New York (acquired from the above on 26 June 1961)
Clifford and Barbara Michel, New York (acquired by 1968)
James H. Chew
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 16 November 1983, lot 37 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, United Kingdom
David Findlay Jr., New York
Acquavella Galleries, New York (acquired from the above on 11 November 1985)
Acquired from the above in 1985 by the present owner 

Laurent Vizzavona, ed., Recueil: Oeuvre de Paul Gauguin; Photographies de E. Druet, vol. 7, Oeuvres diverses, n.d., no. R094632, illustrated
Paul Fechter, "Paul Gauguin: Zur Ausstellung in der Galerie Arnold," Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten, vol. 18, no. 259, 23 September 1910, p. 1 (titled Menschliche Elend)
Rudolf Meyer-Riefstahl, "Paul Gauguin," Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, vol. 27, October 1910–March 1911, p. 109, illustrated (titled Menschliches Elend)
Paul Fechter, "Kunstausstellungen Dresden," Kunst und Künstler: Illustrierte Monatsschrift für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe, vol. 9, no. 2, 1911, p. 107
Michel Puy, "Paul Gauguin," L'Art décoratif: Revue de l'art ancien et de la vie artistique moderne, no. 151, April 1911, p. 173, illustrated (titled La misère humaine)
Charles Morice, Paul Gauguin, Paris, 1919, pp. 144–45, illustrated (titled Paysage breton)
Arsène Alexandre, Paul Gauguin: Sa vie et le sens de son œuvre, Paris, 1930, pp. 249–50 and 272; p. 91, illustrated (titled Drame au village breton)
Charles Kunstler, Gauguin: Peintre maudit, Paris, 1934, p. 41, illustrated (titled Paysage breton)
"Notable Works of Art Now on the Market: Advertisement Supplement," Burlington Magazine, vol. 67, no. 393, December 1935, pl. VIII, illustrated (titled Un village Breton and dated 1889)
John Rewald, Gauguin, Paris, 1938, p. 166; p. 77, illustrated (titled Paysage breton avec personnages and dated circa 1888)
"Paul Gauguin," London Studio, vol. 16, July–December 1938, p. 233, illustrated (titled A village in Brittany)
Maurice Malingue, Gauguin, Monaco, 1943, p. 153; p. 55, illustrated (titled Le village Breton and dated 1888)
Raymond Cogniat, Gauguin, Paris, 1947, pl. 15, illustrated (titled Breton Landscape with Figures and dated circa 1888)
Maurice Malingue, Gauguin: Le peintre et son oeuvre, Paris, 1948, pl. 129, illustrated (titled Village breton avec personnages and dated 1888)
Lee van Dovski, Paul Gauguin oder die Flucht vor der Zivilisation, Olten, 1950, no. 130, p. 343 (titled Village breton avec personnages and dated 1888)
Bernard Dorival, Paul Gauguin: Carnet de Tahiti, vol. I, Paris, 1954, p. 46 (titled Village breton avec personnages)
John Rewald, Post-Impressionism: From Van Gogh to Gauguin, New York, 1956, p. 286, illustrated (titled Misfortunes of Man—View of Pont-Aven and dated 1888–89)
Bernard Dorival, "Le milieu," Gauguin, Paris, 1960, p. 87 (titled Village breton avec personnages and dated 1888)
Georges Wildenstein, Gauguin, Paris, 1964, no. 523, p. 214, illustrated (titled Drame au village)
Merete Bodelsen, "The Literature of Art: The Wildenstein-Cogniat Gauguin Catalogue," Burlington Magazine, vol. 108, no. 754, January 1966, pp. 34 and 38 (titled Drame au village)
Henri Dorra, "Gauguin's Unsympathetic Observers," Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 76, no. 1223, December 1970, pp. 368–70; fig. 3, p. 369,  illustrated (titled Drame au village and dated circa 1894)
Gabriele Mandel Sugana, L'Opera completa di Gauguin, Milan, 1972, no. 343, p. 107, illustrated (titled Dramma al villaggio and dated 1894?)
Elda Fezzi, Gauguin: Every Painting, vol. II, New York, 1980, no. 500, p. 52; p. 53, illustrated (titled Drama in the Village and dated circa 1894)
Michel Hoog, Gauguin: Vie et oeuvre, Paris, 1987, p. 186 (titled Drame au village)
Maurice Malingue, La Vie prodigieuse de Gauguin, Paris, 1987, p. 207 (titled Drame au village)
Assia Kantor-Goukovskaïa, Anna Barskaïa and Marina Bessonova, Paul Gauguin: Musée de l'Ermitage, Musée des Beaux-Arts Pouchkine, Paris, 1988, p. 56; p. 55, illustrated (titled Drame au village)
Henri Dorra, "Gauguin et l'émancipation de la femme," Gauguin: Actes du colloque Gauguin; Musée d'Orsay, 11–13 janvier 1989, Paris, 1991, p. 188 (titled Drame au village)
Lyn Delliquadri, "A Living Tradition: The Winterbothams and Their Legacy," Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, vol. 20, no. 2, 1994, p. 108 (titled  Human Misery)
Sophia Shaw Pettus, "Checklist of the Joseph Winterbotham Collection, 1921–1994," Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, vol. 20, no. 2, 1994, p. 186, illustrated (titled Of Human Misery / Brittany and dated 1889)
Anna Barskaya, Asya Kantor-Gukovskaya and Marina Bessonova, Paul Gauguin: Mysterious Affinities, Bournemouth and Saint Petersburg, 1995, p. 76; p. 80, illustrated (titled Village Drama)
Denise Delouche, Gauguin et la Bretagne, Rennes, 1996, pp. 97 and 134; p. 97, illustrated (titled Drame au village)
Peter Kropmanns, Gauguin und die Schule von Pont-Aven im Deutschland nach der Jahrhundertwende, Sigmaringen, 1997, pp. 44–47 and 92: note 139 (titled Menschliches Elend/Drame au village)
Ex. Cat., Graz, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Paul Gauguin: Von der Bretagne nach Tahiti; Ein Aufbruch zur Moderne, 2000, pp. 83-84 and 143; p. 83, illustrated (titled Drama im Dorf and Drame au village/Drama auf dem Lande)
Ex. Cat., Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Gauguin's Nirvana: Painters at Le Pouldu 1889–90, 2001, fig. 159, p. 120, illustrated in color (titled Pont Aven: Village Drama)
Henri Dorra, The Symbolism of Paul Gauguin: Erotica, Exotica and the Great Dilemmas of Humanity, Berkeley, 2007, pp. 85–86, 92 and 245; p. 87, fig. 34, illustrated (titled Village Drama)
Peter Zegers, "Gauguin Cat. 95 Human Miseries, from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints: Descriptive Analysis and Related Works," Gauguin Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Works at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2016, fig. 95.13, n.p., illustrated (titled Village Drama)
Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc., ed., “Drame au village, Pont-Aven, 1894 (WPI Ref. No. PGQIZX),” Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, 1891–1903,
https://digitalprojects.wpi.art/artworks/gauguin/detail/71700-drame-au-village-pont-aven?all=drame (accessed 7 October 2022)