Hans Bellmer

Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York

Mr. and Mrs. E.A. Bergman, Chicago (acquired in 1961)

William N. Copley, New York (acquired by 1975)

Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 5-6 November 1979, lot 41 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired at the above sale) 

Acquired by 1981 by the present owner

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Hans Bellmer Drawings and Sculpture, 1975 (dated 1950)

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, 1999, vol. I, no. 14, p. 62, illustrated in color (dated 1950)

Peter Webb and Robert Short, Hans Bellmer, London, 1985, p. 214 (dated 1952)

Sue Taylor, Hans Bellmer: The Anatomy of Anxiety, Cambridge, 2000, p. 163, illustrated; p. 165 (dated circa 1942)

Peter Webb and Robert Short, Death, Desire and the Doll: The Life and Art of Hans Bellmer, Paris, 2006, p. 117