Mikhail Larionov

Waldemar George, Paris (acquired by 1961)

Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York (acquired by 1971)

Sotheby's, London, 2 April 1987, lot 611 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

St Petersburg, Third Union of Youth Exhibition, 1912, no. 118 (titled Golova soldata)

Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Donkey’s Tail, 1912, no. 109 (titled Golova soldata)

(probably) Berlin, Der Sturm, Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon, 1913 (ex cat)

Paris, Galerie Paul Guillaume, Exposition Natalie de Gontcharowa et Michel Larionow, 1914, no. 4 or 5 (titled Tête de soldat and dated 1908)

Leeds City Art Gallery; Bristol City Art Gallery and London, Art Council Gallery, Larionov and Goncharova: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings and Design for the Theatre, 1961, no. 30, illustrated

Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Gontcharova - Larionov, 1963, no. 110 (titled Tête de Soldat rayonniste)

Paris, Galerie Jean Chauvelin, Aspects de l’avant-garde russe 1905-1925, 1969, no. 36, illustrated (titled Tête de Soldat and dated 1909)

New York, Leonard Hutton Galleries, Russian Avant-Garde 1908-1922, 1971, no. 54, p. 21, illustrated in colour (dated 1910)

Jersey City, Saint Peter's College Centennial Art Gallery, The Constructive Line, 1972, no. 13 (dated 1910)

Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Modern Painting: 1900 to the Present, 1975 (dated 1910-11)

New York, Leonard Hutton Galleries, Der Blaue Reiter und sein Kreis, 1977, no. 42 p. 53, illustrated in colour (dated 1910)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Avant-Garde in Russia, 1910-1930: New Perspectives, 1980-81, no. 109 (dated 1911)

Eli Eganbury [Ilya Zdanevich], Natalia Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov, Moscow, 1913, p. XX, listed under works from 1911 (titled Golova soldata); reproduced as a plate (titled Golova soldata and dated 1910)

Waldemar George, Larionov, Paris, 1966, p. 123, illustrated; no. 121, p. 131 (titled Tête de Soldat and dated 1910)

Valentine Marcadé, Le Renouveau de l'art pictural russe 1863-1914, Lausanne, 1971, pl. 89, illustrated 

Magdalena Dabrowski, “The Formation and Development of Rayonism,” Art Journal, Spring 1975, vol. 34, no. 3, p. 202, fig. 5, illustrated (dated 1911-12)

Patrica Kaplan and Susan Manso, eds., Major European Art Movements, 1900-1945: A Critical Anthology, New York, 1977, p. 302, fig. 8, illustrated (dated 1910)