Signature Signed in brown ink, bottom right corner: Marie Laurencin
Marks Watermark on backing paper, bottom right corner, indecipherable
Inscription Recto and verso: none
Verso of frame, label: a HEYDENRYK frame / THE HOUSE OF HEYDENRYK / 141 WEST 54th STREET / NEW YORK 19, N.Y.
Provenance Henri-Pierre Roché (1879-1959), Cannes [see note 1]; Galerie 65, Cannes[see note 2]. Dealer Cobb Lane Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama, 1962 [see note 3]; purchased by William Hansell and Susan Mabry Hulsey, Birmingham, 1962 [see note 4]; gift to Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, 2000
1. An invoice that is addressed to Cobb Lane Gallery of Birmingham, Alabama with an attached letter of authenticity indicates that 2000.142 comes from the Roché collection.
2. This information is found in The Hulsey Collection, 1963, page 47, and in Laurencin’s catalogue raisonné by Daniel Marchesseau, 1999, no. PP0093.
3. An invoice addressed to Cobb Lane Gallery indicates that it was sold to the director of the gallery, Mrs. W. R. Lathrop. The invoice is undated and does not indicate who sold 2000.142 to the gallery, but the seller is likely Galerie 65. This gallery held a Laurencin exhibition in 1962.
4. The receipt of purchased from Cobb Lane Gallery to Mr. William H. Hulsey is dated to September 10, 1962.
