Inscr. lower left: L.,verso the discarded painting "Gaboon Viper", 1955, centered on the canvas painted over with a white field: T. LUX F. 59 "West-African"
TLF: "Westafrican" also referred to as "anti-Maria", 1959 [101]; "West-African", 1959 Cambridge [102, Nr. 113]
Private collection USA
Provenance: 1962 or 1963 studio sale to Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Jonas, Cincinnati, OH, later San Francisco, CA, inherited by Susanne Jonas