Paul Klee

Hermann and Margrit Rupf, Bern, until 1954
Berggruen & Cie., Paris
James Wise, New York (acquired from the above in 1959)
New Art Center Gallery, New York, until 1962
Curtis O. Baer

Vienna, Galerie Würthle, Paul Klee. Zeichnungen und Aquarelle 1913-40., 1959, no. 29
New York, New Art Center Gallery, Paul Klee, 1960, no. 16, illustrated in the catalogue
Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Master Drawings from Titian to Picasso, The Curtis O. Baer Collection, 1985, no. 96, illustrated in the catalogue Atlanta, Carlos Museum, Emory University, on loan, 1993
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, on loan, 2003
Munich, Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus; Kunstmuseum Bern;  Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Paul Klee 1933, 2003-2004, no. 268, illustrated in the catalogue

The Paul Klee Foundation (ed.), Paul Klee Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 6, London, 2002, no. 6314, illustrated p. 405

The sheet has been hinged to the mat in two locations along the top edge. The left edge is scalloped; the sheet may have been torn from a notebook. There is surface dirt along the edges and small areas equally spaced along the edges that appear to be minor disturbances, perhaps glue residue. The original mount is visible in the current framing beneath the art work.
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