Estate of the Artist (from 1966)
Renate, Hans and Maria Hofmann Trust (acquired from the above in 1996)
Ameringer Yohe Fine Art, New York (acquired in 2007)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2007
The Arts Club of Chicago; Hans Hofmann, November 3 - 25, 1944, no. 27 (dated 1944); then traveled to Milwaukee Art Institute, January 1- 14, 1945,
Nuremberg, Fränkische Galerie am Marientor; Cologne, Kölnischer Kunstverein; Berlin, Kongreßhalle; Munich, Städtische Galerie München Lenbachpalais, Hans Hofmann, April 8, 1962 - January 13, 1963, cat. no. 7, n.p. (as Die geheime Quelle)
Cynthia Goodman, Hans Hofmann, New York, 1986, p. 55 (dated 1944)
Cynthia Goodman, "Hans Hofmann: The Breakthrough Years", Provincetown Arts, vol. 2, no. 1, July 1986, p. 7 (dated 1944)
Cynthia Goodman, Hans Hofmann, exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1990, p. 54 (dated 1944)
Suzi Villiger, ed., Hans Hofmann Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Volume II: 1901-1951, London, 2014, no. P354, p. 211 (illustrated)