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[Dr. Girardin (Galerie La Licorne), Paris. Acquired from artist c. September 1921?]
Galerie Pierre (Pierre Loeb), Paris. [1930] [By October 1934]
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York. By November 1936
Alexina Matisse (later Alexina Duchamp), New York. 1949
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchased from Sidney Janis Gallery with funds provided by Armand Grover Erpf, April 1955

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Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 46 x 35 1/4" (116.8 x 89.5 cm)
Credit Gift of Armand G. Erpf
Object number 18.1955
Department Painting & Sculpture

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