Signature Signed in pencil, recto, lower right: SD
Inscription Inscribed in pencil, verso, lower right: 5319882
Inscribed in pencil, verso, center: 2-32-44
Printed label on verso of frame now removed and in curatorial files: Dali (S.) / 5. LE CHANT / Dessin à la plume. / Réserve blanche sur fond d'argent. Signé des initiales en bas à / droite. / Ancienne collection Paul Eluard. Haut. 0,28; larg. 0,19 / (Pendant du suivant.)
Printed label on verso of frame now removed and in curatorial files: HOTEL DES CHEVAU-LÉGERS / 3 Impasse des Chevau-Légers
Printed label on verso of frame now removed and in curatorial files: M.G. de KNYFF et M. J.-L. RICHARD / EXPERTS
Provenance Paul Eluard [see note 1]. With Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, NY [see note 2]; purchased by William Hansell and Susan Mabry Hulsey, 1962; gift to the Birmingham Museum of Art, 2000
1. According to a label found in the verso of the frame and now in the curatorial files of the Birmingham Museum of Art.
2. According to a bill of sale from Parke-Bernet to William H. Hulsey dated March 21, 1962.
