Acquired 1963 from the artist by the Pasadena Art Museum [later Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena]; sold December 1982 to (Galerie Beyeler, Basel);[1] purchased by the NGA Collectors Committee; gift 1985 to NGA. [1] See correspondence with the Norton Simon Museum, in NGA curatorial files, and Debra Burchett-Lere, ed., _Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings, 1946-1994_, Berkeley, 2011: no. SFF.642.