Max Ernst

Paul Éluard, Paris

René Gaffé, Brussels 

Sir Roland Penrose CBE, London (acquired from the above through E.L.T. Mesens on 15 July 1937)

Marcel Zerbib, Paris (acquired from the above in 1953)

William N. Copley, Paris and New York (acquired by 1966)

Sotheby's, New York, The William N. Copley Collection, 5 November 1979, lot 8 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Exh. Cat., New York, Whitelaw Reid Mansion, First Papers of Surrealism, 1942, n.p., illustrated (attributed to Giorgio de Chirico and dated 1915)

James Thrall Soby, Giorgio de Chirico, New York, 1955, p. 64, illustrated (attributed to Giorgio de Chirico and dated 1914)

Francine du Plessix, “William Copley, The Artist As Collector,” Art in America, vol. 53, no. 6, December 1965-January 1966, p. 66, illustrated in a photograph of William N. Copley's New York apartment (attributed to Giorgio de Chirico and dated 1918)

Maurizio Fagiolo, Giorgio de Chirico: Il tempo di Apollinaire, Rome, 1981, no. 9, p. 22; p. 23, illustrated (attributed to Giorgio de Chirico and dated circa 1926)

Paolo Baldacci, De Chirico. 1888-1919, La metafisica, Milan, 1997, p. 423, illustrated (dated circa 1938)

Exh. Cat., Kunsthaus Zürich; Munich, Haus der Kunst and Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Arnold Böcklin – Giorgio de Chirico – Max Ernst. Eine Reise ins Ungewisse, 1997-98, no. 61, p. 322, illustrated; pp. 323-24

Victoria Noel-Johnson, De Chirico and the United Kingdom (c. 1916 – 1978), Rome, 2017, pp. 70 and 397, illustrated; pp. 60 and 788

Victoria Noel-Johnson, “De Chirico in the René Gaffé Collection & the Role of E.L.T Mesens (Brussels – London),” Metaphysical Art, no. 19/20, 2020, fig. 23, p, 63, illustrated; pp. 68 and 81 (dated circa 1934)

London, Zwemmer Gallery, Chirico-Picasso, 1937, no. 3 (attributed to Giorgio de Chirico and dated 1913)

London Gallery, Giorgio de Chirico, 1938, no. 16, p. 13 (attributed to Giorgio de Chirico and dated 1913)