Henri Matisse

Theodore Ahrenberg, Stockholm (acquired from the artist)

Private Collection, Tokyo

Sotheby's, London, 4 April 1990, lot 329 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Jean Leymarie, Herbert Read and William S. Lieberman, Henri Matisse, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1966, no. 103, p. 127, another cast illustrated

Louis Aragon, Henri Matisse a novel, vol. II, London, 1971, no. 131, p. 175, another cast illustrated

Albert E. Elsen, Henri Matisse, New York, 1972, no. 82, p. 68, another cast illustrated

Albert E. Elsen, Origins of Modern Sculpture: Pioneers and Premises, London, 1974, no. 20, p. 17, another cast illustrated

John Elderfield, Matisse in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1978, p. 51, another cast illustrated

Michael P. Mezzatesta, Henri Matisse Sculptor/Painter, Forth Worth, 1984, no. 8, p. 53, another cast illustrated

Pierre Schneider, Matisse, New York, 1984, p. 564, another cast illustrated

Ernst-Gerhard Güse, ed., Henri Matisse Zeichnungen und Skulpturen, Munich, 1991, no. 108, n.p., another cast illustrated

Claude Duthuit and Wanda de Guebriant, Henri Matisse, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre sculpté, Paris, 1997, no. 22, pp. 52 and 55, another cast illustrated; p. 54, this cast listed

Carrie Pilto, ed., Living with Matisse, Picasso and Christo. Theodor Ahrenberg and His Collections, Paris, 2018, no. 8, p. 82, another cast illustrated

Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Modern Utländsk Konst Ur Svenska Privatsamlingar, 1954

Stockholm, Nationalmuseum; Helsinki, Helsingin Taidehalli and Liège, Maison Liègeoise, Henri Matisse, Apollon, Utställning anordnad I samarbete med Medicinska Föreningen, 1957-58

Zurich, Kunsthaus, Henri Matisse, Das plastische Werk, 1959, no. 21, p. 10, illustrated