Galerie André-François Petit, Paris
Ira and Tonian Genstein, Pennsylvania (acquired in 1981)
Elizabeth Gettinger
Tonian and Joseph Volk, Pennsylvania (by descent from the above)
La Salle University, Philadelphia (acquired from the above in 1985)
Christie's, New York, May 16, 2018, lot 377
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Washington, D.C., The American Federation of Arts, The Temptation of St. Anthony. Bel Ami International Competition and Exhibition of New Paintings by Eleven American and European Artists 1946-1947, September 1946, p. 28 (illustrated, pp. 4, 29)
Washington, D.C., Caresse Crosby Gallery, The Temptation of St. Anthony, October 1947
Tucson, University of Arizona Museum of Art, The Sedona Collection, October 1958 - September 1959
Museen der Stadt Köln, Westkunst: Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1939, May 30 - August 16, 1981, no. 289, pp. 110, 381 (illustrated)
Baltimore Museum of Art; Nashville, Frist Art Museum, Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s, February 24 - September 29, 2019
Harriet Janis, "Artists in Competition: Eleven Distinguished Artists Compete in a Struggle with the Temptations of St. Anthony," Arts & Architecture, vol. 63, April 1946, p. 55 (illustrated, p. 33)
Leo Lerman, "Hollywood: Art," Harper’s Bazaar, April 1946, p. 145 (illustrated)
"Tempting Women," Newsweek, September 1946, p. 92 (illustrated)
Jean Seznec, "The Temptation of St. Anthony," Magazine of Art, vol. 40, March 1947, p. 90 (illustrated)
Marcel Jean, Histoire de la Peinture Surréaliste, Paris, 1959, pp. 322-323
Dorothea Tanning et Les Enfants de La Nuit, exh. cat, Casino Communal, Knokke, 1967, p. 12
Uwe M. Schneede, Surrealism, New York, 1973, p. 102
Patrick Waldberg, Les Demeures d’Hypnos, Paris, 1976, p. 321
Dorothea Tanning, Between Lives: An Artist and Her World, New York, 2001, p. 157
Caroline P. Wistar, La Salle University Art Museum. Guide to the Collection, Philadelphia, 2002, p. 105 (illustrated)
Mey-Yen Moriuchi, "Space, Place and Gender in the Art of Dorothea Tanning," in Art and Social Change. Essays on the Collection of La Salle University Art Museum, Klare Scarborough and Susan M. Dixon, eds., Philadelphia, 2016, fig. 9.1, pp. xix, 161, 166-169 (illustrated, p. 162)
Max Ernst – D-paintings – Zeitreise der Liebe, exh. cat., Max Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR, 2019, p. 34
Victoria Carruthers, Dorothea Tanning: Transformations, London, 2020, p. 61 (color)