Provenance:
Sotheby's, Paris November 30, 2010
Marcia and John Friede, New York, 2010
Christies, New York, May 5, 1995: lot 187
Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Marcus, Dallas
Julius Carlebach, New York 1952

Publishing History:
Sotheby's, Paris November 30, 2010: lot 50.
John Friede, et. al. New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of John and Marcia Friede, 2005: vol. 1, 174, and vol. 2, 105 (figure 145).
Allen Wardwell. The Art of the Sepik River. The Art Institute of Chicago. 1971: 52 (cat. no. 101).

Exhibition History:
DeYoung Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, October 15 2005- February 14, 2010.

Allen Wardwell. The Art of the Sepik River. The Art Institute of Chicago., October 16-November 28, 1971.