Oil on canvas
Not on view
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November 1914 – May 25, 1915, Henri Matisse
May 25 – 26, 1915, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, purchased from the artist
May 26, 1915, Léonce Rosenberg, Paris, purchased from the above
1923 – 1929, Jacques Doucet (1853–1929), Paris
1929 – 1939, Jeanne Roger (Madame Jacques Doucet), Paris/Neuilly, probably inherited from her husband Jacques Doucet
1939, César M. de Hauke, New York, purchased from the above
1948, Florene M. and Samuel A. Marx, Chicago, purchased from Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
1964, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired as a gift from Florene M. Marx (later Florene M. Schoenborn)
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