Kazimir Malevich

Hugo Häring, Berlin and Biberach an der Riss (acquired as a gift from the artist in 1927)

Roma Häring-Bahn (wife of the above; acquired by descent from the above)

Christie’s, London, 3 February 1974, lot 162

Annely Juda Fine Art, London

Roald Dahl, Great Missenden (acquired from the above in 1976)

Lucy Dahl (acquired by descent from the above)

Sotheby’s, London, 22 June 1993, lot 56 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Donkey's Tail, 1912, no. 169 or 170 (titled Heads of Peasants)

Moscow, 16-aya gosudarstvennaya vystavka. Personal'naya vystavka K.S. Malevicha. Ego put' ot impressionizma k suprematizmu (16th State Exhibition. Malevich – His Path from Impressionism to Suprematism), 1920

Berlin, Landesausstellungsgebäude am Lehrter Bahnhof, Grosse Berliner Kunstausstellung. Sonderausstellung Malewitsch, 1927

Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Avantgarde Osteuropa 1910-1930, 1967, no. 113 (titled Frauenkopf [Woman's Head] and catalogued as oil on canvas)

London, Annely Juda Fine Art, Russian Pioneers: At the Origins of Non-Objective Art, 1976, no. 22

Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Malevitch, 1978, no. 13, p. 40, illustrated (titled Tête de paysan)

London, Annely Juda Fine Art, The First Russian Show: A Commemoration of the Van Diemen Exhibition, Berlin 1922, 1983, no. 36, p. 117, illustrated in colour

London, Annely Juda Fine Art, Twenty Five Years Annely Juda Fine Art/Juda Rowan Gallery – Masterpieces of the Avantgarde, 1985, no. 28, p. 150, illustrated

Troels Andersen, Malevich. Catalogue raisonné of the Berlin exhibition 1927, including the collection in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1970, no. 20, p. 85, illustrated

Malévitch, 1878-1978. Actes du Colloque international tenu au Centre Pompidou, Lausanne, 1979, no. 50, n.p., illustrated (titled Tête)

Andréi Nakov, Kazimir Malewicz. Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 2002, no. F-281, p. 115, illustrated (titled Visage de paysan)

Andréi Nakov, Malevich: Painting the Absolute, vol. 1, London, 2010, F-281, p. 173, illustrated in colour (titled Peasant Face)