Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Paul Klee (1879-1940)

Magazinierte Symbole

Details
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Magazinierte Symbole
signed 'Klee' (lower right)
watercolor on paper laid down by the artist on board
Sheet size: 19 x 12 3/8 in. (48.3 x 31.4 cm.)
Mount size: 22¾ x 15 in. (57.8 x 38.1 cm.)
Painted in 1938
Provenance
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Paris (by 1938).
Nierendorf Gallery, New York (1938).
Katherine Kuh Gallery, Chicago (possibly acquired from the above, 1942).
Literature
W. Grohmann, Paul Klee, Stuttgart, 1954, p. 215.
J. Glaesemer, Paul Klee: Die farbigen Werke im Kunstmuseum Bern, Gemälde, farbige Blätter, Hinterglasbilder und Plastiken, Bern, 1976, p. 328, note 34.
The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné, Bern, 2003, vol. 7, p. 359, no. 7293 (illustrated).
Exhibited
The Art Institute of Chicago, The Nineteenth International Exhibition of Water Colors, April-May 1940, no. 139.
New York, Nierendorf Gallery, Paul Klee, Presented by the Art Students' League of New York, January-February 1941, no. 7.
New York, Nierendorf Gallery, Fifth Selection of Works by Paul Klee, March-June 1942, no. 14.
Sale room notice
Please note the correct medium is: watercolor on paper laid down on board.

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