Preservation: Very good. The painting has never been restored. It was cleaned in 1983 by Kemal Selmanović.
Provenance: Dr. Alfred Perl of Zagreb donated the painting to the Narodna galerija in 1941, before World War II began in Yugoslavia, through the mediation of Professor Friderik Juvančič of Zagreb.
Exhibitions: 1909/10, Saint Petersburg, No. 731; 1909/10, Odessa/Kiev, No. 761; 1910, Riga, probably No. 594; 1910/11, Moscow, probably No. 239; 1983, Munich and Baden-Baden, Cat. No. 81a; 1983, Ljubljana, No. 99; 1985, Belgrade, No. 54; 1987, Belgrade-Zagreb-Ljubljana, no number; 1989, Ljubljana, No. 70; 1993, Arles, No. 9; 1995, Milan, No. 20.
Lit.: Jawlensky 1983, p. 190, Cat. and Fig. No. 81a; Zeri [& Rozman] 1983, p. 168, Cat. and Fig. No. 99; World Masters 1987, p. 46, Fig. on p. 47 (text Jure Mikuž); Zeri and Rozman 1989, p. 157, Cat. and Fig. No. 70; Jawlensky 1993, p. 44, Cat. No. 9 (text Alain Charron); Jawlensky 1995, p. 70, Cat. No. 20, Fig. on p. 71.