Pablo Picasso

The artist (until at least 1946)

Private Collection, United States

Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the above on 24 April 1974)

Perls Galleries, New York (acquired from the above on 23 June 1981)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

New York, Museum of Modern Art; The Art Institute of Chicago; Boston, Institute of Fine Arts and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (and traveling), Picasso: Forty Years of His Art, 1939-43, no. 262, p. 163, illustrated (titled Circus (Acrobats))

Christian Zervos, Picasso 1930 à 1935, Paris, 1936, n.p., illustrated 

Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art, New York, 1946, p. 184, illustrated (titled Circus (Acrobats))

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso: Oeuvres de 1932 à 1937, vol. VIII, Paris, 1957, no. 86, p. 37, illustrated

Pierre Daix, Picasso, New York, 1965, p. 154, illustrated

Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso: Del Minotaur al Guernika(1927-1939), Barcelona, 2011, no. 416, p. 138, illustrated in color (dated February 5, 1933)