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Ferdinand Alquié, Paris (a gift from the artist)
Galerie A.F. Petit, Paris
Heinz Berggruen, Paris
William Louis-Dreyfus, Mt. Kisco, New York (acquired from the above in 1993)
Acquired by the Louis-Dreyfus Family Collections by inheritance from the above in 2016

Paris, Galerie A.F. Petit, Bellmer, Brauner, Dalí, Delvaux, Ernst, Magritte, Tanguy, 1962, n.n.

Pierre Matisse, Yves Tanguy, Un recueil de ses oeuvres, New York, 1963, no. 184, illustrated p. 98

The work is in excellent condition. Executed on cream wove paper. The sheet is t-hinged to a window mat at the upper left and upper right corners of its verso. The top and bottom edges are deckled and the left and right edges are cut. There is small accretion, possibly a studio stain, to the left of the elements at center left. There is tape along all four edges of the verso. The sheet is variously inscribed in pencil on the verso. The pigments are extremely well-preserved.
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At this time it is the intention of the Tanguy Committee to include this work in the forthcoming revised Yves Tanguy Catalogue Raisonné.