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[EXETER CITY GALLERY, England. "The Enchanted Domain," 1967, cat.]
[ROYAL ALBERT NEW MUSEUM, Exeter, England.]
[MUSEE DES BEAUX-ARTS DE BORDEAUX, Bordeaux. "XXIeme Exposition de Mai," 1971, ill. no. 148, p. 86.]
[KUNSTVEREIN FUR DIE RHEINLANDE UNIVERSITAT WESTFALEN, Dusseldorf. c.1971-1972, ill. no. 156].
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray," 2 December 1988-20 February 1989, cat. pp. 119, 140, 141, fig. 111, p. 141. TOUR: PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART, Pennsylvania, 14 October 1989-7 January 1990. (Work did not tour to Los Angeles or Houston.)
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NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Washington, DC. "DADA," 19 February-14 May 2006, no. 289, ill. p. 327. TOUR: CENTRE POMPIDOU, Paris, 5 October 2005-9 January 2006; MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York, 18 June-11 September.
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Credit Line:
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase Fund and Museum purchase, 1987
