Paul Klee

Lily Klee, Bern (acquired by descent from the artist in 1940 and until at least 1942)

Pitmey Collection (acquired from the above through Nierendorf Gallery, New York, between 1942 and 1947)

John Seymour Thacher, Washington D.C. (acquired by 1960)

Berggruen & Cie, Paris 

Monsieur de Gavardie, Paris (acquired from the above in 1972)

Finarte, Rome, 15-16 November 1988, lot 120

Private Collection, USA

Sotheby’s London, 2 December 1992, lot 147 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Munich, Glaspalast, Münchener Neue-Secession. XIII. Ausstellung, 1927, no. 139, p. 20

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Paul Klee, 1930, no. 16 

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Abstractions by Paul Klee, 1938

(probably) Oakland, Mills College Art Gallery, Abstract Art, 1939

Los Angeles, Stendahl Art Galleries, Sixty Years Anniversary Exhibition with Recent Works of Paul Klee, 1940

Cincinnati Art Museum, Paintings by Paul Klee and Mobiles and Stabiles by Alexander Calder, 1942

Yale, University Art Gallery, Paintings, drawings and sculpture collected by Yale alumni, 1960, no. 202, p. 195, illustrated

Richard Verdi, Klee and Nature, London, 1984, pp. 25-27, pl. 16, p. 27, illustrated

The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné 1931-1933, vol. VI, Bern, 2002, no. 4022, p. 448, illustrated