William Degouve de Nuncques

Suzanne Degouve de Nuncques (née Poulet; the artist's second wife, previously married to the polar explorer Baron Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery)

Thence by descent to her son Baron Gaston de Gerlache de Gomery, London, by 1957 (1919-2006; also a polar explorer, led the second Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1957)

Sale: Christie's, London, 1 December 1989, lot 1161

Purchased at the above sale by Asil Nadir

Brussels, Galerie Giroux, William Degouve de Nuncques, Emile Verhaeren, 1926

Paris, Le Grand Palais, Peintres de l’Imaginative, Symbolistes et Surrealistes, Belges, 1972 (illustrated in the catalogue no. 7, p. 42)

New York, The New York Cultural Center and Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Painters of the Mind's Eye: Belgian Symbolists and Surrealists, 1974 (illustrated in the catalogue p. 34)

Knokke Le Zoute, Kursaal, Le Symbolisme en Belgique, 1974, no. 57

Brussels, Hotel de Ville, William Degouve de Nuncques, 1977

André de Ridder, William Degouve de Nuncques, Brussels, 1957, no. 5 (illustrated)

Francine-Claire Legrand, Le Symbolisme en Belgique, Brussels, p. 169, pl. 91 (illustrated)

Robert L. Delevoy, Le Journal du Symbolisme, p. 111 (illustrated in colour)