Paul Klee

Heinrich Kirchhoff, Wiesbaden (acquired by 1924)

Estate of the above (acquired in 1934)

Galerie Ferdinand Möller, Berlin (on consignment from the above by 1936)

Antonie Kirchhoff, Wiesbaden (acquired by descent from the Estate of Heinrich Kirchhoff in September 1938)

Maria Gillhausen, Munich (on consignment from the above by February 1938)

Galerie Ernst Arnold, Munich (on commission from the above between February-July 1938)

Galerie Alex Vömel, Düsseldorf (on commission from the above in July 1938)

(probably) Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), New York (on commission from the above in August 1938)

Galerie Ernst Arnold, Munich (on commission from Maria Gillhausen in October 1938)

Galerie Alex Vömel, Düsseldorf (on commission from the above between October-November 1938)

Galerie Ernst Arnold, Munich (on commission from Maria Gillhausen between November-December 1938)

Maria Gillhausen, Munich (on consignment from Antonie Kirchhoff)

Private Collection (acquired from the above in September 1939)

Jason Bloom Fine Arts, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner 

Guido Rudolf Bagier, Kunstchronik and Kunstmarkt, Ausstellung Wiesbaden, 1922, vol. XXXIII, 40th issue, 12922, S.668

Christine Hopfengart, "Klee at the German 'Museums of the Present, 1916-1933," Paul Klee, Art and Career, Contributions to the International Symposium in Bern, vol. 1, Bern, 2000, pp. 68-92

The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné, 1919-1922, vol. 3, Bern, 2004, no. 2825, p. 361, not illustrated

Sibylle Discher, Der Mäzen Heinrich Kirchhoff (1874-1934) und seine Wiesbadener Kunstsammlung. Eine vergleichende Studie zur privaten Sammlerkultur vom Wilhelminischen Kaiserreich bis zum Ende der Weimarer Republik, Doctoral dissertation, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Wiesbaden, 2018, no. 456, p. 285

Wiesbaden, Nassauischer Kunstverein and Wiesbaden, Neues Museum, Paul Klee, 1922

Wiesbaden, Nassauischer Kunstverein and Wiesbaden, Neues Museum, 1924, no. 41

Wiesbaden, Nassauischer Kunstverein and Wiesbaden, Neues Museum, 30 German Artists of Our Time, 1930, no. 18

Witten, Märkisches Museum, Kunstsammlungen Kirchhoff (Wiesbaden) und Bob Gésinus-Visser (Witten), 1936