Estate sale, Galerie Royale, Brussels, 18 & 19 December 1922, lot 118, ill. p. 15, sold for 3,100 fr. Jef Dillen, Brussels Mme J. Dillen, Brussels, by 1937 Jacques Schroeder, Brussels, 1988 Lancz Gallery, Brussels, 2000 Private collection, Belgium Eric Gillis Fine Art, Brussels, 2012 Private collection, New York
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