Julien Levy Gallery, New York (acquired directly from the artist in 1944)
Collection Abbot Kimball, New York (1944-1972)
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, January 26, 1972, lot 184
Helen Serger, la boetie, inc., New York (1972-1978)
Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 1978-1979
New York, Julien Levy, Paintings by Kay Sage, October 3 – 31, 1944, no. 5
New York, Helen Serger, la boetie, inc., Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints by 20th Century Masters, Fall 1973, no. 134
New York, Helen Serger, la boetie, inc., Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints by 20th Century Masters: New Acquisitions, Summer 1974, p. 8 (illustrated)
Dallas, Valley House Gallery, Surrealism in Art, May 7 – June 8, 1975 (illustrated, n.p.)
New Brunswick, Rutgers University Art Gallery, Surrealism and American Art 1931-1947, March 5 – April 24, 1977, no. 133, p. 106 (illustrated)
London, Hayward Gallery, Dada and Surrealism Reviewed, January 11 – March 27, 1978, no. 15.44, p. 399 (illustrated)
Houston, The Menil Collection (temporary loan 2020-2021)
Stephen Robeson Miller, Catalogue Raisonné of Kay Sage’s Work, 1983, no. 96 (unpublished manuscript)
Renee Riese Hubert, Magnifying Mirrors: Women, Surrealism and Partnership, Lincoln, 1994, pp. 182, 184 (erroneously dated as 1949)
Christine Battersby, "Just jamming: Irigaray, painting and psychoanalysis" in New feminist art criticism, Katy Deepwell, ed., Manchester, 1995, p. 133 (erroneously dated as 1947)
Stephen Robeson Miller and Jessie Sentivan, ed., Kay Sage. Catalogue Raisonné, Munich, 2018, no. P.1944.3, p. 170 (illustrated, p. 171)