Giampaolo Prearo Editore, Milan
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Sweden, Malmö Konsthall, Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line, 4 March - 11 May 2010 (another variant exhibited)
The Art Institute of Chicago, Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph 1964-1977, 13 December 2011 - 11 March 2012 (another variant exhibited)
Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph 1964-1977, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago, 2011, pp. 100, 101, 134-142 (another variant illustrated)
Robin Kelsey, Photography and the Art of Chance, Massachusetts, 2015, pp. 284-310 (another variant listed)
David Acton, A History of Photography at the University of Notre Dame, Lewes, 2019, pp. 360, 361 (another variant illustrated), 362, 363, 442 (another variant listed)
Robin Kelsey, 'How John Baldessari Three Three Balls in a Straight Line: The making of a now-famous series of photographs', Aperture, vol. 221, January 2020, online (another variant listed)