Mr. & Mrs. Maurice Speiser, Philadelphia, acquired directly from the artist, 1921
Mr. & Mrs. Malcolm C. Eisenberg, Philadelphia
Private Collection, Bucharest
New York, Brummer Gallery, Brâncuși, November 17 – December 15, 1926, later traveled to Chicago, Arts Club of Chicago, (January 4 – 18, 1927)
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Collects – 20th Century, October, 3 – November 7, 1963
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Constantin Brâncuși, 1876 – 1957: A Retrospective, September – November, 1969 later traveled to New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (November 1969–February 1970), Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago (March–April 1970)
Bucharest, Muzeul Naţional de Artă, Constantin Brâncuși, June – August, 1970
Den Haag, Netherlands, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Brâncuși, September – November 1970
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Constantin Brâncuși, 1876 - 1957, April 14 - August 21, 1995, later traveled to Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art (October 8 - December 31, 1995)
Brâncuși, exh. cat., Brummer Gallery, New York, 1926, no. 1 (illustrated)
M. M., "Constantin Brâncuși: A Summary of Many Conversations," The Arts, July 1923, p. 55 (illustration of the plaster)
C. Giedion-Welcker, Constantin Brâncuși, G. Braziller, New York, 1958, pl. 15 (illustration of the plaster)
S. Geist, "Brâncuși Catalogued," Arts Magazine, January 1964, p. 69
A. Tacha Spear, "A Contribution to Brâncuși Chronology," The Art Bulletin, vol. XLVIII, no. 1, March 1966, no. 36, p. 53
S. Geist, Brâncuși: A Study of the Sculpture, New York: Grossman Publishers, 1968, no. 47, p. 31 (illustrated)
S. Geist, Constantin Brâncuși, 1876 – 1957: A Retrospective, exh. cat., The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1969, p. 33 (illustrated)
S. Geist, Brâncuși, Den Haag, Netherlands, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, 1970, n. 3 (illustrated)
Constantin Brâncuși, exh. cat., Muzeul Naţional de Artă, Bucarest, 1970, n. 18 (illustrated)
W. Tucker, Early Modern Sculpture. Rodin, Degas, Matisse, Brâncuși, Picasso, Gonzales, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1974, p. 112 (illustrated)
S. Geist, Brâncuși, The Sculpture and Drawings, New York, 1975, p. 46 (illustrated)
Brâncuși photographe, exh. cat, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1977, no. 59 (illustration of the plaster)
S. Geist, Brâncuși: A Study of the Sculpture, New York, 1983, no. 38 (illustrated)
P. Hulten, N. Dumitresco, A. Istrati, Brâncuși, Paris, 1986, no. 36, p. 279 (illustration of the plaster)
R. Varia, Brâncuși, New York: Rizzoli, 1986, p. 102 (illustrated)
B. Brezianu, Brâncuși en Roumanie, Bucharest : Editura All, 1998, pp. 110-127
F. Teja Bach, Constantin Brâncuși, Metamorphosen Plasticher Form, Cologne, 1987 & 2004, no. 53e, p. 414 (illustrated)
F. Teja Bach, M. Rowell, A. Temkin, Constantin Brâncuși, 1876 – 1957, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1996, n. 4, pp. 82-83 (illustrated)