Condition report: Condition is good.  There is no damage and no evidence of restoration. Marlborough Gallery label on verso.

Frame: The painting is double-mounted and in its original frame.

Provenance: Collage is actually addressed to Stephen Edlich himself, at his address at 439 Lafayette Street, NY.  It was exhibited by  the Marlborough Galleries,  New York art at 40, West 57th Street (label on verso), and was also offered by Christe's. It is also dedicated to a friend of Edlich's with an inscription in his own hand verso. 

Stephen Edlich, 45, Artist, Dies

Stephen Edlich, a painter admired for his deft re-combination of elements from the classic era of European modernism, was found dead yesterday in his studio in Manhattan. He was 45 years old. A police spokesman said the cause of death had not been determined.

Mr. Edlich's gifts were recognized when he was shown at the Waddington Gallery in Montreal in 1969. In November 1975 his one-man show at the Gruenebaum Gallery in New York attracted favorable attention. Mating painting with sculpture, and making volume keep company with hue, the work was an adroit anthology of idioms from the heroic age of modern art.

In 1976 an exhibition called ''Three Generations of American Painting,'' at both the Gruenebaum and the Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Galleries, linked Mr. Edlich with Robert Motherwell and Richard Diebenkorn. In 1977 he moved to the Marlborough Gallery, where he had exhibitions in 1978, 1981, 1983 and 1985. His Work Is in Museums

Mr. Edlich's work was acquired by the Brooklyn Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh and others.