The artist, Paris; sold to H.P. Roché and Denise Renard, Paris, late 1950 [letter from Marcel Duchamp to Jacques Villon, Dec. 4, 1950, Archives Marcel Duchamp, Villiers-sous-Grez (Seine-et-Marne), repr. in Paris 2007]. Marcel Duchamp [letter from Alexina S. “Teeny” Duchamp to A. James Speyer, June 26, 1974, in curatorial object file]; bequeathed to Frank B. Hubachek, Jr. (1894-1986), Chicago, 1968 [this and the following according to letter from Frank B. Hubacheck, Jr. to Alexina S. “Teeny” Duchamp, June 18, 1974, in curatorial object file]; renounced and returned to Alexina S. “Teeny” Duchamp; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1974.