The Artist
Galerie d'Art Moderne, Basel
Eric Estorick, London (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner circa 1960
London, Tate Gallery, Jean Arp. Sculpture, Reliefs, Paintings, Collages, Tapestries, November 24 - December 23, 1962, no. 26 (marble version exhibited)
Santa Barbara, University of California, Art Gallery, 20th Century Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture from Santa Barbara, April 20 - May 14, 1965 (present lot exhibited)
Santa Barbara, University of California, Art Gallery, Surrealism – A State of Mind, February 26 - March 27, 1966 (present lot exhibited)
Santa Barbara, University of California, The Art Galleries, American and European Sculpture of the 1920s and 1930s, February 22 - March 26, 1972 (present lot exhibited)
Los Angeles, Wight Art Gallery, University of California, In the Sculptor’s Landscape, Celebrating 25 Years of the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden, March 22 - May 9, 1993, no. 8 (present lot exhibited)
Kunzelsau, Museum Würth, Hans Arp – eine Übersicht, Arbeiten aus den Jahren 1912 bis 1965, September 8 - December 31, 1994, no. 111, n.p. (marble version exhibited and illustrated)
Kunstmuseum Appenzell, Im Mondquadrat. Aspekte der Sammlung Arp-Hagenbach, October 26, 2003 - January 25, 2004, pp. 120-121 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
Arie Hartog, ed., Hans Arp - Skulpturen – Eine Bestandsaufnahme (Hans Arp - Sculptures - A Critical Survey), Ostfildern, 2012, no. 93, p. 102 (another example illustrated)