Paul Klee

Heinrich Kirchhoff, Wiesbaden (acquired directly from the artist in 1930-31)

Estate of the above (acquired in 1934)

Antonie Kirchhoff-Heinzberger, Wiesbaden (acquired by descent from the above in 1938)

Kunsthaus (Rudolf Probst), Mannheim (on consignment from the above in 1938)

Maria Gillhausen, Munich (on consignment from Antonie Kirchhoff-Heinzberger by 1939)

Galerie Ernst Arnold, Munich (on commission from the above)

Private Collection, Germany (acquired from the above in 1939 and until at least 1998)

Private Collection, Germany (probably acquired by descent from the above and until at least 2010)

Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 3 December 2010, lot 25 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner 

The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee, Catalogue Raisonné, 1927-1930, vol. 5, Bern, 2001, no. 5176, p. 432, illustrated; p. 438, illustrated in color

Marie Luise Knott, Dazwischenzeiten: 1930. Wege in der Erschöpfung der Moderne, Berlin, 2017, pp. 163-64, illustrated in color 

Exh. Cat., Museum Wiesbaden, Der Garten der Avantgarde. Heinrich Kirchhoff: Ein Sammler von Jawlensky, Klee, Nolde ..., 2017-18, pp. 284-85, illustrated in color

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. 467, p. 285