Kees van Dongen

Monsieur Abel and Madame Marie [Escudier] Desjardins, Paris (acquired from the artist and at least until circa 1942)

Nouveau Drouot, Paris, 17 June 1981, lot 82

Pierre and Huguette Béres, Paris

Huguette Béres, Paris

Galerie Daniel Malingue, Paris (acquired from the above in 1984)

Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above in 1985)

Private Collection, USA

Acquired in 2000 by the present owner

Jeanne Guenne, 'L'Exposition de l'art vivant au Théâtre Pigalle, in L'Art Vivant, iss. no. 130, 1 May 1930, fig. 75, pp. 391 and 431, illustrated

René Huyghe and Germain Bazin, Les Contemporains, Paris, 1939, pl. 37, n.p., illustrated in colour

Gotthard Jedlicka, Der Fauvismus, Zurich, 1961, pl. 82, illustrated

(probably) Paris, Galerie d'Antin, Van Dongen, 1917, no. 47 (titled Mme Desjardins)

Exposition de l'art vivant, 1930, no. 97

Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes; Monteviedo, Salón Nacional de Bellas Artes; Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes; San Francisco, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum and Chicago, Art institute of Chicago, Exposição de Pintura Francesa, 1939-41, no. 154

Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Van Dongen, 1942, no. 44 (dated 1910)

Martigny, Pierre Gianadda Foundation, Kees van Dongen, du Nord et du Sud, 2004, no. 69, illustrated in colour

Montreal, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Barcelona, Museu Picasso de Barcelona and Monte Carlo, Salle d'expositions du Quai Antoine, Kees van Dongen, 2008-09, no. 188, p. 274, illustrated in colour