Max Ernst

Serge Diaghilev, Paris (acquired circa 1926) 

Serge Lifar, Paris (acquired from the above in 1929 and until at least 1976) 

Private Collection, Lausanne (acquired by 1991) 

Tajan, Paris, 21 December 2000, lot 61

Acquired from the above by the present owner 

Werner Spies, Günter Metken and Sigrid Metken, Max Ernst: Werke 1925-1929, vol. III, Cologne, 1976, no. 996, p. 105, illustrated 

Robert McNab, Ghost Ships, A Surrealist Love Triangle, New Haven, 2004, no. 82, p. 164, illustrated in color

Paris, Galerie Vignon, Collection des Peintures de nos jours appartenant à Serge Lifar, 1929