The Artist
Victor Joze, Paris (likely offered by the Artist's family in 1891)
Félix Fénéon, Paris (acquired in 1926)
Baron Robert von Hirsch, Bâle (acquired in 1958)
Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., London, June 27, 1978, lot 848
Galerie Tarica, Paris (acquired at the above sale)
Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé (acquired from the above in September 1985)
Christie's, Paris, Collection Yves Saint Laurent et Pierre Bergé, Paris, February 23, 2009, lot 6
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Les dessins de Georges Seurat, November 29 - December 24, 1926, no. 97, n.p. (illustrated)
Paris, Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Seurat, February 3 - 29, 1936, no. 127, n.p.
Paris, Galerie nationales du Grand Palais; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seurat, April 9, 1991- January 12, 1992, no. 213, p.383 (illustrated)
Victor Joze, L'Homme à femmes, Paris, 1890 (illustrated, front cover)
Georges Lecomte, "La Ménagerie Sociale de M. Victor Joze: Une couverture de M. Seurat", Art et critique, February 1890, p. 87
Bernheim-Jeune, ed., “Précisions concernant Seurat”, Le Bulletin de la Vie Artistique, Paris, no. 16, August 15, 1924, p. 360 (illustrated)
Gustave Coquiot, Seurat, Paris, 1924, p. 111
Gustave Kahn, Les dessins de Georges Seurat, Paris, 1928, pl. 81 (illustrated)
Robert Rey, La peinture française à la fin du XIXe siècle: La renaissance du sentiment classique: Degas – Renoir – Gauguin – Cézanne - Seurat, Paris, 1931, pp. 140-141
Robert L. Herbert, "Seurat and Jules Chéret", The Art Bulletin, vol. 40, no. 2, June 1958, fig. 6, p. 158 (illustrated)
Henri Dorra and John Rewald, Seurat, Paris, 1959, no. 196a, p. 250 (illustrated)
C.M. de Hauke, Seurat et son oeuvre, Paris, 1961, vol. II, no. 695, pp. 286-87 (illustrated, p. 287)
Robert L. Herbert, Seurat's Drawings, New York, 1962, fig. 133, pp. 153-54 (illustrated, p. 154)
Gustave Kahn, The Drawings of Georges Seurat, New York, 1971, no. 101, p. xvii (illustrated)
Georges Seurat: The Drawings, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007, fig. 11, pp. 178-79 (illustrated, p. 179)
Michelle Foa, Georges Seurat: The Art of Vision, New York and London, 2015, fig. 92, pp. 111, 145-46 (illustrated, p. 146)