Provenance:
Salvador Schiavo, president of Roman Bronze Works, gift received from the artist;
Philip Schiavo, president of Roman Bronze Works, received by heritage;
Private Collection New York;
Manuel Barbié Art Gallery, Barcelona;
Swiss private property.

Expertise:
Confirmation of authenticity by Alan G. Wilkinson, author of the catalog raisonné of Jacques Lipchitz, Swindon, Wiltshire, UK, 2005.

Literature:
Alan G. Wilkinson. The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. I: The Paris Years 1910-1940. Thames and Hudson 1996, page 175, no. 140-142;
A.M. Hammacher. Jacques Lipchitz, His Sculpture, London 1961, No. 34 (Gift from the artist to Alice Tériade);
Exhibition catalogue. Marlborough-Gerson Gallery. Alfred Werner. Lipchitz: The Cubist Period. New York 1968, no. 34 (Bronze version);
Exhibition catalogue. Art Gallery of Ontario. Alan G. Wilkinson. Jacques Lipchitz: A Life in Sculpture. Ontario 1989, page 98, no. 38 (Basalt version).

In an accompanying letter dated 2005, Philip J. Schiavo, president of Roman Bronze Works, now Roman Bronze Studios, New York, confirms that the family's ownership of the work dates back to his father's friendship with Jacques Lipchitz, who received the work as a gift.