Nasreddine (Etienne) Dinet

Rex Ingram, California (1892-1950); Ingram was an Irish film director from the 1910s to 1930s. He became one of Hollywood’s best-known film directors, launching the career of Rudolph Valentino. Dinet and Ingram were close friends, with the former advising Ingram on his films set in Algeria in the 1920s. A number of works by Dinet hung on the walls of Ingram's Hollywood bungalow)

Inherited from the above by his wife, Alice Terry (1899–1987), (her sale: Sotheby Parke Bernet, Los Angeles, 17 March 1980, lot 179)

Galerie Nataf, Paris

Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 1992

Paris, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1922, no. 317

Paris, Gallerie Allard, 1924

Pierre Deloncle, La Vie et les mœurs en Algérie in 'Cahiers du Centenaire de l'Algérie', Orléans, 1931, vol. X, p. 61, as Danse des Ouled Naïl (illustrated)

Augustin Bernard, L' Algérie, Paris, 1931, p. 243 (illustrated)

Koudir Benchikou and Denise Brahimi, La vie et œuvre de Etienne Dinet, catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1984, cat. no. 262, p. 220 (illustrated)