Inscription
lower right in black gouache: KLEE; label on verso of mount: Institute of Chicago 19th / National Exhibition / Watercolors -1940 / Paul Klee / Berne, Switzerland / Baroque Centaur / $400- / ADDRESS Nierendorf / 18 E 57 St NYC
Provenance
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler [1884-1979], Paris, 1939. (Galerie Karl Nierendorf, Cologne, Berlin, and New York), c. 1939. (Buchholz Gallery, Berlin, until 1952); Benjamin and Lillian Hertzberg, New York; gift to NGA, 2004.
Exhibition History
- 1940
- Paul Klee Exhibition, Buchholz Gallery and Willard Gallery, New York, 1940, no. 100.
- 1941
- Paul Klee, Art Students' League of New York, 1941, no. 19.
- 1941
- Paul Klee: A Show, Nierendorf Gallery, New York, 1941, no. 13.
- 1956
- Paul Klee, Berner Kunstmusem, 1956, no. 717.
- 1967
- Paul Klee, 1879 - 1940, A Retrospective Exhibition, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1967, no. 165.
- 1967
- Paul Klee, 1879 - 1940, Kunsthalle Basel, no. 185.
Bibliography
- 1941
- Nierendorf, Karl. Paul Klee, Paintings and Watercolors, 1913 to 1939. New York, 1941: no. 63.
- 1942
- Frost, Rosamund. "Klee: Pigeons Come Home to Roost," Art News 8, 1942: 24 - 25.
- 1954
- Grohmann, Will. Paul Klee. Paris, 1954: 336.
- 1955
- Grohmann, Will. Paul Klee. New York, 1955: 342.
- 1969
- Huggler, Max. Paul Klee. Stuttgart, 1969: 208.
- 1998
- The Paul Klee Foundation, Joseph Helfenstein and Christian Rümelin, eds. Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné. 9 vols. New York and London, 1998-2004: 8:no. 7987.
- 1999
- Kort, Pamela, et al. Paul Klee in the Mask of Myth. Cologne, 1999: 297.
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