Possibly (Galerie Pierre, Paris);[1] Mary Callery [1903-1977], Boulogne-sur-Seine and New York, by 1939.[2] Carlo Frua de Angeli [1895-1969], Milan, by 1959;[3] his estate; purchased May 1972 by (Galerie Beyeler, Basel);[4] purchased 5 October 1972 by NGA. [1] Speculation that the painting was originally in Gertrude Stein's collection in Paris appears to be incorrect, despite the presence of a label on the back of the painting with the name "Mlle Toklas" and an address she shared with Stein on it. See the letter, 27 September 1972, from Margaret Potter, former curator at the Museum of Modern Art, to NGA curator John Bullard; in NGA curatorial files, as well as the 1977 statement of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler quoted in Anne Carnegie Edgerton, "Picasso's 'Nude Woman' of 1910," _The Burlington Magazine_ (July 1980). The appendix of Edgerton's article also discusses a letter from Pierre Loeb dated 22 March 1939 that concerns payment for a "Nu époque cubiste." Informed about this letter in 1977 by Mary Callery's niece and executrix, Edgerton speculates that it probably refers to the NGA painting. [2] The American sculptor Mary Callery lent the painting to a Picasso exhibition in New York in 1939, and all of the published references during her ownership give her name as "Mrs. Meric Callery." She was married twice, to Frederic R. Coudert, Jr., from June 1923 to May 1931, and for two years, beginning in May 1934, to the Italian industrialist and collector Carlo Frua de Angeli (she was his second wife). [3] The painting is identified as in a private collection in Milan in John Golding, _Cubism: A History and an Analysis_, New York, 1959: 87, pl. 9b, which was likely that of Frua de Angeli. The collector lent the painting to a 1960 exhibition in London. He and Mary Callery were married for two years, 1934 to 1936, and it is possible he acquired the painting directly from her. [4] Letter, 9 December 1974, Ernst Beyeler to J. Carter Brown, in NGA curatorial files.