PROVENANCE
Art of This Century, New York
Selden Rodman, New Jersey The New Gallery, New York David Gibbs & Co. Inc., New York Julian J. and Joachim Jean Aberbach, New York Galerie Motte, Geneva, Switzerland Galerie d'Arte Moderne, Basel, Switzerland Mr and Mrs William Bell, Connecticut
Sale; Sotheby's, New York, 2 May 1988, lot 6 (dated c.1946)
Private collection
Sale; Sotheby's, New York, 13 November 1991, lot 17 (dated c.1946)
Barbara Lee, Boston, Massachusetts
Sale; Christie's, New York, 13 May 2015, lot 28B
Acquired from the above by the present owner

EXHIBITION HISTORY
‘Jackson Pollock’, Art of This Century, New York, 2–20 April 1946 (probably)
‘Jackson Pollock’, The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, 5 April – 3 September 1967 (inclusive)
‘Tableaux Modernes’, Galerie Motte, Geneva, Switzerland, June 1969
‘Jackson Pollock: Drawing into Painting’, The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK; Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany; Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1979–80 (inclusive)

LITERATURE
Francis Valentine O’Connor, Jackson Pollock, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1967, no.137, p.136
Bernice Rose, Jackson Pollock: Works on Paper, The Museum of Modern Art and The Drawing Society Inc., New York, 1969, pp.62–63, illustrated (dated ‘1946?’)
Francis Valentine O'Connor and Eugene Victor Thaw (eds.), Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings and Other Works, Volume 3: Drawings, 1930–1956, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1978, no.766, p.256, illustrated
Jackson Pollock, exh. cat., Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1979, no.20, p.38, illustrated (dated c.1945)