Nicholas Vasilieff (acquired directly from the artist circa 1946–1947)
John Heller Gallery, Inc., New York (1958)
Benefit Art Sale for the New York Psychoanalytic Association, New York, November 1959
David and Lova Abrahamsen, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Inger Elliott, New York (thence by descent from the above)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Continuity and Change: 45 American Abstract Painters and Sculptors, April 12–May 27, 1962, no. 30, p. 14 (titled Artist’s Wife)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Arshile Gorky: Paintings, Drawings, Studies, December 19, 1962–February 12, 1963, no. 95, p. 55
New York, Gagosian Gallery, Arshile Gorky: Portraits, March 20–April 27, 2002, pp. 60–61 (illustrated, p. 61; dated circa 1942)
New York, Armand Bartos Fine Art, Collect with Us, November 4–14, 2008
New York, Armand Bartos Fine Art, Collect With Us, May 3–28, 2010
Purchase, Neuberger Museum of Art; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of American Art; Andover, Massachusetts, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, de Kooning, and Their Circle, 1927–1942, September 21–December 31, 2012, no. 76, pp. 163, 168 (illustrated)
Julien Levy, Arshile Gorky, New York, 1966, no. 34, n.p. (illustrated)
Barbara Rose, “Arshile Gorky and John Graham: Eastern Exiles in a Western World,” Arts Magazine, New York, March 1976, vol. 50, no. 7
Jim M. Jordan and Robert Goldwater, The Paintings of Arshile Gorky: A Critical Catalogue, New York, 1982, no. 197, pp. 345–346 (illustrated, p. 346)
Daniel Kunitz, “Gallery Chronicle,” The New Criterion, New York, vol. 20, no. 9, May 2002, p. 50 (dated circa 1942)
Ben Eastham, ed., The Worlds of Stephen Spender, Zurich, 2018, pp. 118–120, 151 (illustrated, p. 119)