Robert Motherwell

Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist circa 1944)
Kootz Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1946)
Mr. and Mrs. John Murray Cuddihy, New York (acquired from the above in 1954)
Marisa Del Re Gallery, New York (acquired from the above circa 1982)
Acquired from the above in April 1985 by the present owner

New York, Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, Robert Motherwell: Paintings, Collages, Drawings, January 1946, no. 6 
New York, Museum of Modern Art; Poughkeepsie, Vassar College; Palm Beach, Society of the Four Arts; Cincinnati Modern Art Society; San Francisco Museum of Art; Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University and Bloomington, Indiana University Art Center Museum, September 1946 - June 1947, no. 61, p. 37, illustrated
Stamford Museum & Nature Center, Abstract Expressionism Lives!, September - November 1982, p. 21 illustrated
New York, Marisa del Re Gallery, Seven Abstract Masters, November - December 1982

Henry McBride, "Attractions in the Galleries," New York Sun, 12 January 1946, p. 9
Ben Wolf, "Difficult Origins," Art Digest, vol. 20, no. 8, 15 January 1946, p. 17
Eugene C. Goossen, "Robert Motherwell and the Seriousness of Subject," Art International, vol. 3, nos. 1-2, January - February 1959, p. 34, illustrated
Russell J. Jinishian, "Not 'pretty' nor Recognizable, but Strong, Personal, Alive!" Bridgeport Post, 31 October 1982, sec. C, p. 9
Vivian Raynor, "Milton Avery: Paintings on Paper at the Whitney," New York Times, 10 October 1982, sec. 23, p. 26
Bailey Van Hook, "Robert Motherwell's Mallarme's Swan," Arts Magazine, vol. 57, no. 5, January 1983, pp. 104-105, illustrated
Mary Ann Caws, Robert Motherwell: With Pen and Brush, London, 2003, p. 20, illustrated 
Jack Flam, Katy Rogers and Tim Clifford, eds., Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941-1991, Vol. II, New Haven, 2012, no. P15, p. 15, illustrated in color