Henri Matisse

Jean Matisse, Paris (the artist’s son; acquired by descent from the artist circa 1954)

Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York

Acquavella Galleries, New York (acquired from the above in October 1973)

Frank Perls, California (acquired circa 1974)

Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago 

Private Collection (acquired from the above)

Christie’s, New York, 30 April 1996, lot 49 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Paris, Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Exposition Henri Matisse, 1938 

San Francisco, John Berggruen Gallery and Los Angeles, Margo Leavin Gallery, An Exhibition of Selected Drawings in Homage to Frank Perls, 1975, no. 18, p. 15, illustrated (titled Femme assise au chapeau)

Lydia Delectorskaya, With apparent ease… Henri Matisse, Paintings from 1935-1939, Paris, 1988, p. 81, editioned version illustrated