Paul Klee

Galerie Neue Kunst (Hans Goltz), Munich (acquired from the artist circa 1919)

Ida Bienert, Dresden and Munich (acquired circa 1920 and at least until 1953)

Galerie Nathan, Zurich (acquired from the Bienert family by 1969)

Eugene Victor Thaw & Co., New York (acquired from the above in April 1969)

Berggruen & Cie, Paris (acquired from the above by 1979)

Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo (on loan from the above in 1981)

Acquavella Galleries, New York 

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (acquired from the above in March 1982)

Sotheby's, New York, 10 November 2014, lot 27 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Berlin, Galerie Fritz Gurlitt, Kollektiv-Ausstellung Wolf Röhricht, Paul Klee. Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Graphik, 1920, no. 53

Darmstadt, Städtisches Ausstellungsgebäude Mathildenhöhe, Deutscher Expressionismus, 1920, no. 359

München, Städtische Galerie in Lenbachhaus, Paul Klee. Das Frühwerk, 1883-1922, 1979-80, no. 334, p. 454, illustrated

Tokyo, Fuji Television Gallery; Osaka, Gallery Kasahara, Exhibition of Paul Klee, 1981, no. 4, p. 25, illustrated in color

Wilhelm Michel, "Deutscher Expressionismus Darmstadt 1920," Feuer, Saarbrücken, 11 August 1920, pp. 788-802; p. 792, illustrated

Will Grohmann, Die Sammlung Ida Bienert Dresden, Potsdam, 1933, p. 21, illustrated

Georges Duthuit, "à Paul Klee," Cahiers d'Art, vol. 20e-21e, Paris, 1946, p. 20, illiustrated

Jenny Anger, Modernism and the Gendering of Paul Klee, dissertation, Brown University, 1997, p. 167

The Paul Klee Foundation and Museum of Fine Arts, Bern, eds., Paul Klee Catalogue raisonné 1913-1918, vol II, Bern, 2000, cat. no. 1849, p. 435, illustrated

Kathryn Porter Aichele, Paul Klee, Painter/Poet, Rochester, 2006, p. 102