Galerie Van Leer, Paris (by 1928) Galerie Mouradian Vallotton, Paris Associated American Artists, New York Lady Caroline Oppenheimer Collection, South Africa (acquired from above) Sir Michael Oppenheimer Collection, Jersey (by descent from above) Private Collection (by descent from above)
Literature
C. Zervos, Raoul Dufy, Paris, 1928, pl.90, illus. P. Courthion, Raoul Dufy, Geneva, 1951, pl.89, illus. M. Laffaille, Raoul Dufy, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Vol. III, Geneva, 1976, no.985, p.49, illus.
This painting was featured in a 1940 print advertisement for diamonds as part of a series of works that the De Beers Consolidated Mining Company licensed from Raoul Dufy in the 1940s and 1950s