Fernand Léger

Galerie L’Effort Moderne (Léonce Rosenberg), Paris (acquired directly from the artist on 4 April 1921)

Alphonse Kann, Saint Germain-en-Laye

Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichleiter Rosenberg (ERR), Inventory Number “Ka 1182” and deposited at the Jeu de Paume in October 1940

Restituted to Alphonse Kann on 11 July 1947

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York

Joseph H. Hazen, New York (acquired from the above on 20 December 1955)

Thence by descent to the present owner

L’Esprit nouveau, no. 9, 1921, n.p., illustrated

Iwan Goll, “Fernand Léger,” Das Kunstblatt, vol. VI, no. 2, 1922, p. 76, illustrated 

Christian Zervos, Fernand Léger, oeuvres de 1905 à 1952, Paris, 1952, p. 46, illustrated; p. 93

Jean Cassou and Jean Laymarie, Fernand Léger Drawings and Gouaches, Greenwich, 1973, p. 70, fig. T21, illustrated

Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint (1920-1924), Paris, 1992, no. 295, p. 165

Christian Derouet, ed., Correspondances, Fernand Léger—Léonce Rosenberg, 1917-1937, Paris, 1996, pp. 82 and 269

Rose Valland, The Art Front, The Defense of French Collections 1939-1945, Dallas, 2024, p. 296, illustrated in an installation photograph at the Jeu de Paume

(probably) Paris, Galerie de l’Effort Moderne, Exposition de groupe, 1921

Jerusalem, Israel Museum; Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum; Los Angeles, The Art Galleries, University of California; Berkeley, University Art Museum, University of California and Honolulu Academy of Arts, Paintings from the Collection of Joseph H. Hazen, 1966-67, no. 19, n.p., illustrated (Jerusalem); no. 61 (Cambridge)

New York, Acquavella Galleries, Inc., Fernand Léger, 1987, no. 28, n.p.

Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Selections from the Joseph H. Hazen Collection, 1994-95, p. 7, illustrated in color