Pablo Picasso

Adolph Lewisohn, New York

Walter Wallace, New York

Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., New York and Norfolk (acquired by 1939)

Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 22 March 1945, lot 83 (consigned by the above) 

Jacques Seligmann, New York (acquired at the above sale)

Theodore Schempp, New York (acquired from the above in half-share on 23 March 1945 and acquired in full from the above in May 1945)

John P. Meyer and Alice S. Meyer, Saint Louis (acquired from the above in May 1945)

Sotheby’s, New York, 2 November 2005, lot 20 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, oeuvres de 1920 à 1922, vol. IV, Paris, 1951, no. 355, pl. 142, illustrated

Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso, From the Ballets to Drama (1917-1926), Barcelona, 1999, no. 1162, p. 315, illustrated; p. 513 (titled Head of an Expectant Woman and dated first quarter of 1922)

San Francisco, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Seven Centuries of Painting, 1939-40, no. Y-199, p. 54 (dated 1922)

Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., 1941, no. 175, pp. 100-01 (dated 1922)

Newport, Rhode Island, Art Association of Newport, 1941

St. Louis, The City Art Museum, St. Louis Collections, An Exhibition of 20th Century Art, 1948, no. 35, p. 9 (dated 1922)