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Paul Klee
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Description
- Paul Klee
- KOPF EINES FRIESISCHEN MÄDCHENS (HEAD OF A FRISIAN GIRL)
- signed Klee (lower left); dated 1928, numbered J.5. and titled on the artist's mount (lower centre)
- pencil on paper laid down on the artist's mount
- sheet size: 32.3 by 20.3cm., 12 3/4 by 8 1/2 in.
- mount size: 48 by 31cm., 18 7/8 by 12 1/4 in.
Provenance
Lily Klee, Bern (1940-46)
Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (1946-50)
Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), Berlin & New York (acquired from the above in 1950)
Danah Fayman, San Diego
Gift from the above to the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego in 2001
Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (1946-50)
Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), Berlin & New York (acquired from the above in 1950)
Danah Fayman, San Diego
Gift from the above to the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego in 2001
Exhibited
Will Grohmann, Paul Klee. Handzeichnungen 1921-1930, Potsdam & Berlin, 1934, no. 106
Paul Klee Stiftung (ed.), Paul Klee Catalogue Raisonné 1927-30, Bern, 2001, vol. V, no. 4727, illustrated p. 257
Paul Klee Stiftung (ed.), Paul Klee Catalogue Raisonné 1927-30, Bern, 2001, vol. V, no. 4727, illustrated p. 257
Catalogue Note
comp: 177D06009_COMP Fig. 1, Paul Klee, Monument in Arbeit, 1929, watercolour on paper, Private Collection, New York