[2] Prior to painting The Foxes in 1913, Marc was inspired by French Cubism and the Orphic works of Robert Delaunay.

[3] Following the rise of Nazi Germany, Grawi was forced to sell much of his art collection and was incarcerated in Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

The painting was acquired by German businessman Helmut Horten in 1961,[3] and he donated it to the Düsseldorf city art collections in 1962.

[4] In 2021, the German advisory panel on Nazi-looted art urged the city of Düsseldorf to return the painting from the Museum Kunstpalast to the Grawi family.

[5] In January 2022, after months of "legal tug-of-war", Düsseldorf's Kunstpalast Museum restituted The Foxes to the Grawi heirs.