until 1912
Pablo Picasso, Paris, France
1912 -
Suermondt Collection (Edwin Suermondt and Martha Suermondt), Drove near Aachen, Germany, purchased from the artist; his family, by inheritance [1]
- 1941
Fine Arts Associates (Otto Gerson), New York, NY, USA [2]
1941/04/30 - 1974
Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., St. Louis, MO, USA
1974 -
Saint Louis Art Museum [3]
Notes:
The main source for this provenance is the catalogue of the Pulitzer collection, cat. no. 49 [Chetham, Charles Scott. “Modern Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture Collected by Louise and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.” Vol. 1. Cambridge: President and Fellows of Harvard College, 1957, cat. no. 49]. Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.
[1] Following Edwin Suermondt’s death in 1923, his collection was left to his heirs: his wife, Martha, and his two children [Mahler, Luise. “Suermondt, Edwin (also Carl Friedrich Edwin Suermondt).” Index of Historic Collectors and Dealers of Cubism. Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art (August 2018)]. If this object was left to Martha Suermondt, it would possibly have been part of the Suermondt-Vömel Collection in Düsseldorf, Germany following Martha's marriage to Alex Vömel in 1927.
[2] Fine Arts Associates is listed in the provenance in the catalogue with no date for the transfer of ownership [see unnumbered note]. Fine Arts Associates was founded c.1940.
[3] Minutes of the Acquisitions Committee of the Board of Trustees, December 19, 1974.
